Your health is my passion

Deborah Cox, PhD, ABPP is an artist, author, and board-certified psychologist whose work lives at the crossroads of trauma recovery, creativity, and spiritual repair.

Through her clinical practice, writing, and teaching, Deborah helps people tend to the places where anger, faith, and attachment have shaped their inner lives—and to grow something new there. She integrates EMDR, EFT Tapping, and art-based methods, inviting both structure and imagination into the healing process.

Deborah is the founder of Beyond Creative Health, LLC, located in the historic Mosher House in downtown Springfield, Missouri, where therapy, art, and story are treated as living systems rather than problems to be fixed.

Through Succulent Books, Deborah publishes trauma-informed works that make complex clinical science accessible, humane, and usable—especially for those healing from religious and spiritual trauma. Her Art of Self-EMDR series offers creative, research-grounded tools for recovery across a wide range of ages and backgrounds.

Her autobiographical novel, Wife Material, explores growing up in a Southern fundamentalist sect and reflects her enduring interest in what it means to unlearn fear, reclaim agency, and continue evolving spiritually.

In addition to her writing and clinical work, Deborah leads creativity workshops for artists and helping professionals, designed to restore originality, effectiveness, and joy in practice, business, and self-care. She offers both CEU programs for therapists and non-CEU workshops for the wider community.