Debra Burdick, LCSW
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Debra Burdick, LCSW, also known as “The Brain Lady”, is an award-winning, best-selling author and international speaker with over 25 years of experience in psychotherapy and neurotherapy. Debra specializes in mindfulness, ADHD, depression, anxiety, stress, chronic illness, chronic pain, and sleep.
She is the author of The Psychotherapy Toolbox for Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain. Debra originally created skills to help those with chronic pain and illness while managing her own chronic illness and chronic pain (thankfully now healed). As a psychotherapist and neurotherapist – and through extensive study with leading experts in the field – she further developed and taught these skills in her private practice and in an intensive outpatient program serving adults with physical or mental illness.
She also designed and facilitated groups for clients with chronic physical illness and presented a workshop for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) titled Psychotherapy for the Physically Ill Client.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Debra Burdick is the owner of The Brain Lady. She receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Debra Burdick contributes to SelfGrowth.com.
