Empower Your Journey

I empower women professionals to turn crises into catalysts for breakthroughs, reclaim their power, and build lasting confidence.

Move from Powerless to Powerful

Having lived through depression herself, Debra Atlas understands the workplace challenges women face. She delivers structured, actionable programs through workshops, mentoring, and keynotes that help women move from powerless to capable, clear, and in control of their lives.

Transform Your Mental Health: Step Back From the Edge!

This program introduces singularly inventive actions designed to disrupt your perspective and foster lasting balance, joy, and satisfaction in both your personal and professional life.

Breakthrough to Your Best Life Mentoring Program

This is a comprehensive seven-week journey that helps participants uncover hidden barriers, gain self-awareness, shift limiting beliefs, and break through obstacles that have stopped them, both personally and professionally, and empowers them to regain their power and control over their lives.

Awaken Your Inner Strength When Life Overwhelms

This program helps women professionals discover what’s held them back, recognize their inner power, and take bold action to move forward with confidence.

Program participants will:

• gain clarity on what's been holding them back

• build confidence to move forward again

• chart their own direction

• take bold action with conviction

Participants will move from powerless to powerful—taking back control and building unshakable confidence.

Services

Workshops

I provide engaging, transformative workshops and mentoring programs, with tools that support women to excel personally and professionally. These programs are designed to inspire bold action and to foster a community of empowered women ready to kick ass and achieve their dreams.

Mentoring Programs

Welcome to a transformative experience where self-discovery meets empowerment, propelling you closer to success with every session. Come embark on a journey where challenges fuel growth, setbacks inspire resilience, and mentorship guides you towards your dreams.

Professional Speaking

Debra doesn’t just speak about depression; she’s lived it. A professional speaker since 1993, she has and continues to deliver powerful workshops, seminars, and interactive keynote speaking engagements for conferences and organizations across the U.S.

She also has experience in radio. An expert communicator, she ran her weekly radio feature for almost 2 years on commercial radio. She has also been a guest on numerous podcasts, both here in the US and internationally.

Meet Debra

An environmental journalist, author, professional speaker, mentor, blogger and workshop leader, Debra is a recognized thought leader. Her programs and writing projects focus on everything from outside-the-box, innovative solutions for current environmental issues to mental health issues and how to step back from depression’s edge.

The Atlas Talks

A journalist, speaker and blogger, Debra Atlas's book You Aren’t Depression’s Victim reveals her as America’s most proficient how-to layperson expert on engaging with depression and giving the nation tools to overcome it.

Her latest project - The Atlas Talks - brings conversations about depression into the mainstream and does so by interviewing fascinating people with great stories to tell.

Guests range from a former FBI undercover agent who was also Whitney Houston's bodyguard , a Navy Seal, a disaster management expert to a former US Diplomat, former US Army Officer, Paramedic and Nurse - people who have dealt with and have experienced national crises and historic events wrapped around huge emotional turmoil. Learn how they not only faced extremely difficult situations but the depression and even PTSD that went with them. And be inspired by their humanity.

Debra Atlas’s book You Aren’t Depression’s Victim chronicles her journey with acute depression, car accidents, chronic pain, debilitating illness, even a brush with suicide It reveals how she stood up to depression and took charge of her life. This empowering book has won:

  • A 2024 BookFest award

  • The 2024 International Impact Award for Personal Growth & Self Help

  • The 2024 Person of the Year Award for Non-Fiction Self-Help

Discover new possibilities to help you take your life back!

What Clients are Saying

"Debra suggests that we commit wholeheartedly to something and don't sacrifice things that mean a lot to you. Don't wait for the "right" circumstances. (Also) if we shift our perspective, thoughts, and speech to the positive aspects of our life, we will improve the quality of our life.”

Debbie Nilsson
Legal Secretaries Association (Siskiyou County, California)

"You engaged everyone with your insights and expertise, and we all learned a great deal."

Ms. Linda States
Speaker Coordinator Women in Business, Mill Valley (CA) Chamber of Commerce

"Debra Atlas's book is poignant, life-affirming, and effective in its interconnected strategies. Atlas gives example after example of how self-acceptance through changing one's perception of self, along with service to others, makes the difference in coping with depression's long reach and anxiety's terrible jags."

Stephanie
(from Amazon reviews)

"Debra's brave perspective has been educational and inspiring. This is a woman who resiliently fought through her rock bottom emotional roller coaster and shared her well-earned and learned pearls of wisdom. Being a good student, I did the homework and gained deeper insight into my relationships, habits, and goals."

NetGalley

"This is book on Depression is written by someone who has lived it...ts pages depict a courageous woman’s struggle to deal with and ultimately triumph over an illness that to outsiders was invisible. You’ll want to read this empowering book and then share it with others."

Alfred Bergman
Co-owner BlueSky Behavioral Health

"Your program was very well structured."

Trevor Wright

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do you offer any warranties on your work?

Yes, we offer a warranty on all labor and parts provided by our company. Specific warranty terms depend on the service and parts used but typically range from 1 to 5 years.

What qualifies as an electrical emergency?

Electrical emergencies include issues like exposed wires, smoke from an electrical device, loss of power, electrical fire, or any situation where there’s a risk of electrical shock. In such cases, call us immediately or dial 911 if it involves fire or life-threatening conditions.

Do you install smart home devices?

Yes, we install a variety of smart home devices including thermostats, security systems, and lighting solutions that can be controlled via smartphone apps or voice commands.