About Damara
Damara Ferguson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She uses clear, practical steps to address worries and low mood. Her approach is warm and respectful, and she focuses on what the person needs right now.
With 16 years of experience, Damara draws on several therapy styles to shape each session. She listens first, then helps identify thoughts and habits that make problems worse.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple skills to reduce overwhelm and build better daily routines. Damara works with a wide range of concerns including depression, addiction, grief, trauma and relationship challenges. She also supports people facing life changes, career stress, anger, and issues around body image or parenting.
She will talk through what matters most and help set small, achievable goals. Her style is collaborative and direct. Conversations are focused and practical.
Homework or short exercises may be suggested between sessions to help people practice new ways of coping. Damara holds LCSW and LISW credentials in Ohio. She tailors care to each person’s needs and explains methods in plain language.
If someone wants a straightforward working relationship and steady progress, she helps plan the steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It can assist with anxiety, stress, and life changes by focusing on meaningful steps rather than getting stuck in worry.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches practical tools to challenge negative thinking and build routines that reduce anxiety and depression.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to see which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences, and adapt techniques over time based on how things are going.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people hold fuller conversations and use visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports brief reflections or ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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