About Davalene
Davalene Wilbanks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 24 years of experience. She helps people who are managing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, anger, low self-esteem, relationship strain, trauma, grief, and related concerns. She works with adults and adolescents and focuses on building a respectful space for honest conversation.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions focus on skills people can use right away to reduce anxiety, handle urges, and improve moods.
Background and approach
She encourages clear goals and step-by-step plans so progress feels manageable. Davalene uses methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts, regulate strong emotions, and set small achievable goals. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy to match techniques to a person’s needs.
That means work might include identifying thought patterns, learning emotion regulation skills, or testing small solutions between sessions. She has a long history of helping clients with substance use and related challenges, including drug and alcohol addiction, codependency, and relapse prevention. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, blended family dynamics, and fatherhood issues.
Sessions are offered in English and Davalene accepts international clients. She provides several remote formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and comfort. Getting started involves a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Many online sessions will draw on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. CBT often includes homework tasks and simple experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting.Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are useful when emotions feel overwhelming; DBT teaches clear skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, concrete steps toward a chosen goal and is often used to build momentum when people want fast, practical change.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean starting with skill-building, then shifting to solution-focused tasks as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, so people can pick what fits their routine. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs, and chat or messaging works for brief check-ins or when a written exchange is easier to fit into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist 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
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