Deborah Cox
Deborah Cox is an artist and licensed psychologist, board-certified in Couple and Family Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. She writes about anger, relationships, and recovery from religious trauma, and helps clients write their own stories of creativity and healing. Her autobiographical novel, Wife Material, tells a story of growing up in a Southern, fundamentalist sect. Deborah uses EMDR, Tapping (EFT), and art methods at Beyond Creative Health, LLC, at The Mosher House, a historic landmark in downtown Springfield, Missouri.
Deborah also conducts creativity workshops for artists and helping professionals, designed to SPARK originality, effectiveness, and joy in practice, business, and self-care. Find out more about her workshops here.
Coaching Services
Create the life you want to live
Individual and Couple Therapy
Therapy to restore connection.
Dr. Cox’s therapeutic approach is grounded in right-brain healing—where attachment, emotion, and creativity lead the work. Deborah uses EMDR therapy and attachment-based methods with individuals and couples to resolve trauma and restore emotional regulation. EMDR methods can be used both to process traumatic memories and to repair attachment bonds between partners (or parents and children). Deborah also uses emotion-focused couples methods to help partners restore emotional intimacy and feel safer together. She uses art therapy as a way to enhance the trauma recovery process. Creative expression with color, texture, and shape not only facilitates memory processing but also improves a person’s overall ability to make desired changes and experience the brain’s natural reward system, strengthening motivation and inspiration. “I know we’re making progress when my client tells me they’ve started drawing or they brought out their old guitar.”
Weight management counseling
Health and wellness coaching
Expand your spiritual knowledge
Change your life through professional health coaching
I help clients transform their health through personalized nutrition and sustainable habits. I’ve guided over 100 clients to better well-being by focusing on small, manageable changes that lead to lasting results.