About
Meet the people behind 200 Lights
Healing doesn't happen in isolation. It happens in connection.
200 Lights grew through the meeting of two different ways of understanding care.
Debbie tends to begin with the inner world. She listens for the history beneath a reaction, the protective part inside a conflict, the attachment wound beneath a fear, and the meaning trying to emerge from an altered-state experience. Her work is shaped by decades of clinical practice, teaching, study, and close attention to the ways people heal through relationship.
Kenny often begins with what is happening in the room. He notices the music, the lighting, the temperature, the pace of a conversation, the snack that might help someone feel grounded, and whether a person needs engagement, reassurance, humor, or quiet. He brings a practical and sensory intelligence to the work, along with the understanding that people do not experience care only through words. They experience it through atmosphere, timing, preparation, and the small signals that tell the body it does not have to remain on guard.
Together, they build the container around the work.
Debbie brings the clinical framework, therapeutic discernment, and understanding of trauma, attachment, relationships, identity, and integration. Kenny helps shape the hospitality, music, physical environment, practical flow, and human details surrounding an experience.
Debbie may be listening for what a protective part is trying to prevent. Kenny may be noticing that the person has not eaten, the room feels too bright, or the music is asking too much of them.
Both forms of attention matter.
We do not believe transformation can be forced, performed, or promised.
We believe you deserve preparation without pressure, support without intrusion, and care that does not turn your experience into someone else's agenda.
Sometimes the most helpful response is an interpretation or a carefully chosen question. Sometimes it is silence, a song change, a warm drink, something to eat, or another person remaining calmly nearby.
The story behind the name
Debbie's story, in her own words
The idea of 200 Lights came to me during a psychedelic journey, although it felt less like a completely new idea and more like something I had understood and worked with for years suddenly becoming visible.
I experienced the brain and nervous system as an immense network of pathways, nodes, and connected lights. Each light a relational experience: being noticed, protected, comforted, delighted in, responded to, accurately understood, or deeply cared for. These relational experiences begin in childhood and continue throughout life, but their deepest imprint is made early. Repeated over time, they help build the architecture of the brain, the nervous system, and the attachment system. They teach the body what relationship is, what safety feels like, and what trust is.
A child may have thousands of these lights illuminated through attunement and secure attachment. Someone looked toward them when they cried. Someone showed delight when they entered the room. Someone offered comfort, repaired disconnection, encouraged exploration, or remained present when feelings became difficult. Through countless repetitions, the nervous system gradually learned: I matter. Other people may respond. I can seek help. I can recover. I can explore the world and find my way back.
But some people grow up with far fewer of these experiences. Their nervous systems adapt intelligently to neglect, inconsistency, fear, intrusion, or having to manage alone. Connections that might have developed through attunement and protection remain dim, intermittent, or difficult to access. Survival pathways become strong because they have been used again and again, while pathways for trust, receiving, play, surrender, comfort, and connection were rarely walked - or walked alone. The lights weren't gone. They were waiting.
In the journey, the number 200 appeared as a threshold. It was not a scientific measurement or a literal count of neural connections. It was an image and it was thrilling to see my life's work in attachment laid out like that - everything I understood about how people grow and heal, held in one picture.
I love the idea of the small quiet moments of care helping to turn on lights for people. A blanket placed over someone who is cold. Comforting touch. A glass of water offered before they have to ask. Music adjusted when the room changes. Lighting softened. Fear met without alarm. Silence allowed without abandonment. Medicine served with reverence. Someone noticing what is needed and responding.
These moments are not decorative additions surrounding the real work. They are part of the work. They are experiences through which the nervous system learns. One experience of care may not rewrite a lifetime. But one light followed by another, and another, can begin to strengthen pathways that survival once left dark.
That was the message I felt in the journey: we may be able to help make this better. Not by rescuing people, forcing transformation, or becoming the source of all their light, but by creating conditions in which enough new experiences of attunement, protection, delight, comfort, and deep care can occur.
We tend the lights until the person's own nervous system has more ways to find its way home.
What Debbie brings
Debbie's work is rooted in the understanding that people heal through relationship, safety, expression, meaning, and experiences that reach beyond intellectual insight alone.
Her clinical foundation includes extensive education and experience in trauma, attachment, developmental healing, couples therapy, adoption competency, parenting, giftedness, grief, identity, and experiential approaches.
Rather than relying on one method, Debbie has developed an integrated way of working shaped primarily by sandtray therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Trust-Based Relational Intervention, and the Nurtured Heart Approach. EMDR, parts work, play therapy, group process, ritual, mindfulness, and solution-focused practices are incorporated when they serve the person and the work.
Her work with altered states rests on this broader clinical foundation.
What Kenny brings
Kenny's gifts are relational and experiential. He notices what helps someone feel welcomed, and what makes it easier to settle into an unfamiliar or vulnerable experience - an instinctive understanding of hospitality, atmosphere, comfort, rhythm, and human connection.
He contributes to the sensory and environmental aspects of the work, including comfort, food, music, pacing, practical support, and the small details that communicate, "You have been thought about. You matter here."
Kenny also brings lived experience of personal growth, altered states, relationship, and the imperfect work of becoming more fully oneself.
His presence keeps 200 Lights from feeling like a clinical procedure. The work feels human.
Our shared approach
We do not believe that transformation can be manufactured, promised, or forced.
We believe people deserve thoughtful preparation, honest information, careful boundaries, meaningful support, and space to encounter their own experience.
We honor the pace. We remain curious about what is unfolding. We celebrate courage and progress. We hold hope when it is difficult for someone to hold it alone.
And whenever possible, we make room for beauty, warmth, humor, comfort, and delight.
These are some of the lights.
What people say about working with us
I can't say enough about my in-home guided healing session with Deb. From start to finish, every detail was handled with care. Her team picked me up at my home and got me safely to and from her house, so the only thing I had to focus on that day was my own healing. They were kind, professional, and made me feel at ease from the moment they arrived.
Deb spends hours with you and that time makes all the difference. She creates a space where you feel completely safe and supported. Her approach is unlike anything I've experienced before, and she helped me work through issues I'd been carrying for years. For the first time in a long time, moving forward feels not just possible but real.
If you've been stuck and are ready for something deeper than traditional therapy, I wholeheartedly recommend Deb and her team.
My experience with Debra was truly life-changing. Working with the medicine gave me a chance to gently face parts of my past I had been carrying for years, come to terms with my divorce, and finally feel ready to move forward into a new chapter.
What meant the most to me was how safe and cared for Debra made me feel throughout the entire process.
I left the experience feeling lighter, more at peace, and genuinely excited about what comes next. I’m incredibly grateful to Debra for walking alongside me through such an important moment in my life, and I hope to work with her again as I begin this next chapter.
"Beautiful, warm, inviting location is the perfect compliment to meeting with Debbie as a therapist. She is one of the most caring, loving, insightful and genuine people I've ever met. I can't recommend her highly enough."
"I highly recommend Debbie as she is an extremely skilled and compassionate therapist. Her office space is so inviting and she has the ability to help anyone feel comfortable and secure in her presence."
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