About Dana
Dana Dodson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma who focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, and related life challenges. She aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful. Dana keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters to each person.
She draws on Client-Centered methods to create a calm space where people can talk honestly about their thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with clearer, more useful habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are introduced when helpful to reduce worry and improve sleep. Over 12 years of work, Dana has supported people dealing with depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and relationship and family strain. She also addresses concerns like self-esteem, parenting stress, anger, career changes, and compassion fatigue.
Her practice includes attention to ADHD, bipolar, chronic illness, body image, and attachment-related worries. Sessions are aimed at real problems and concrete changes. Visitors can expect practical strategies, problem-solving, and short-term plans alongside deeper conversations when needed.
Dana also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused steps to help people move toward goals. Her approach is collaborative - she checks in about what’s working and adjusts plans as needed. For people who prefer online options, Dana offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment. It helps people feel heard and encourages them to explore feelings and goals at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and adds practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood changes. Mindfulness Therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices that can reduce worry and improve focus and sleep.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Dana works collaboratively to learn your needs and goals, then suggests techniques to try. She checks in frequently and adjusts the plan based on what helps most for daily life and specific challenges.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or times when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines and to continue work between sessions.
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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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