About Dana
Dana Dodson is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Oklahoma. She brings 12 years of experience helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns. Dana aims to make beginning therapy a straightforward step for worried parents and individuals who need support.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they really feel. Conversations focus on what matters to the client right now.
Background and approach
Dana listens closely and helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Her work often uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s values and goals.
Mindfulness techniques are used to reduce worry and improve sleep when needed. Dana has supported people through trauma, abuse, and major life changes, including caregiver stress and chronic illness. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, and challenges tied to attachment or adoption and foster care backgrounds.
Sessions can include short-term problem solving and longer work on deep patterns. Dana combines solution-focused strategies and motivational interviewing to help people find doable steps forward. Her goal is to help each person build skills they can use between sessions.
Getting started is simple: select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time that fits. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's own goals and values. The therapist listens closely and helps people make choices that match what matters to them; this approach can help with relationship, family, and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. It teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change patterns that contribute to depression and stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that match those needs. Adjustments are made as progress is seen and priorities shift, keeping the client involved in decisions.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls work well for in-depth sessions where visual cues matter. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, homework support, or when writing helps process thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English