Biography

Deb is author of A Good Friend for Bad Times: Helping Others Through Grief, and its companion Workbook, published by Augsburg-Fortress Press. 
 
Deb is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a counseling and psychotherapy practice at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.  She specializes in work with adults with a variety of clinical issues, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, grief recovery and caregiver issues.  She is trained as a facilitator in the Respecting Choices™ Advance Care Planning program from Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation, assisting families with making end of life care decisions.  Additionally, she participates in disaster preparedness and recovery programs across North Carolina, focusing on clinical and grief issues arising from disasters. 

Deb is a noted workshop presenter.  Her workshop, “A Good Friend for Bad Times: Helping Others through Grief”, can be tailored to community and religious organizations as well as business and industrial organizations.  

She frequently conducts management and employee training programs in the areas of conflict resolution, communication techniques, anger management, and mediation.  An industrial trainer for 11 years, Deb has authored numerous text-based and interactive computer-based training programs. 

Croneworks is the newest addition in Deb Bowen's growing catalog of workshops.  CroneWorks is a collective of wise women who share the gifts they have been given with other women and men who are seeking balance, kindness, and knowledge in both their personal lives and in their work.

Deb holds a BA degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a Master of Social Work degree from East Carolina University.

In addition to her counseling practice, Deb is a lecturer in the University of North Carolina at Wilmington’s Department of Social Work, and a past lecturer in East Carolina University’s School of Social Work off-campus MSW program. 

Deb is a former member of the state board of directors of the North Carolina chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.