About Dana
Dana Dodson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oklahoma. She brings 12 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Dana aims to make the first step easier for those who are nervous about starting therapy.
She keeps sessions straightforward and focused. Conversations center on what matters most to the client right now, such as relationships, parenting strains, sleep trouble, or challenges with attention and ADHD.
Background and approach
She listens without judgment and helps clients notice patterns that get in the way of daily life. Dana uses practical methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness. That means she helps people identify unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and practice skills to calm the body and mind.
She also uses solution-focused and motivational techniques to set concrete, achievable goals. Her background includes a range of life issues like grief, trauma, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and career transitions. She is experienced with intimacy-related concerns, communication problems, and navigating complex family dynamics.
Dana also supports people dealing with bipolar mood challenges and compassion fatigue. Sessions are paced to match each person's needs. Dana helps clients build tools they can use between meetings.
She encourages clear steps and honest conversation so progress is visible and practical.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Dana commonly uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and reflecting back what matters to the client so they feel heard and understood. This approach helps people clarify goals and priorities in plain language. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is also a central part of her work; it breaks down upsetting thoughts and unhelpful behaviors into specific patterns and offers practical experiments to test new ways of coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dana will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She tailors the pace and tools used so sessions feel manageable and relevant to everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style work, and people who want flexible, ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit around busy lives.
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What this therapist 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
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