About Davalene
Davalene Wilbanks is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 24 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She supports adults and adolescents through life transitions, parenting challenges, relationship struggles, grief, trauma, bipolar disorder, and ADHD. Her style aims to make talking about hard things feel straightforward and practical.
Clients can expect direct, down-to-earth conversations focused on what is happening now. She uses goal-oriented strategies so sessions stay focused on concrete changes.
Background and approach
She also teaches skills for handling strong emotions and building better day-to-day routines. Davalene draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice how thoughts affect feelings and actions. She integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and tolerance during intense moments.
Solution-Focused Therapy guides short-term planning and practical steps people can try between sessions. Her practice includes work related to family of origin issues, blended family and fatherhood concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication and commitment problems, and substance misuse. She helps people untangle control issues, dependent personality patterns, and the fallout from separation or domestic violence.
Based in Missouri, she offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She encourages people to start small and bring whatever feels most urgent to the first session. The emphasis is on doable strategies and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How evidence-based approaches translate online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviors to change how they feel. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal skills to manage intense feelings and reduce impulsive actions. Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on practical goals and small steps clients can take right away to see improvement.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions can shift over time so techniques fit what is actually helping.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for teaching skills and role-playing. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, step-by-step problem solving, or ongoing support between longer meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and different life demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English