About Marilyn
Marilyn Davis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oklahoma with 19 years of clinical experience. She draws on long work with people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, depression, ADHD, and anger. Marilyn favors a collaborative relationship and emphasizes listening first.
Her background includes school-based work supporting teens with Individualized Education Plans in special education. She has also provided care in independent practice settings and taken part in clinical research in both academic and inpatient environments.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped her practical, straightforward approach to problems. Marilyn uses a team-oriented style in sessions. She helps clients set clear goals and then builds a plan that fits each person.
Sessions focus on skills people can use at home, at school, and at work to manage strong feelings and daily stressors. Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and client-centered methods that emphasize the person's own values and strengths. She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas and acceptance and commitment principles when those approaches match a client's needs.
Parents and caregivers often come for help with parenting challenges, grief, family conflict, or behavior concerns. Marilyn also works with people dealing with chronic health issues, caregiver strain, body image, and relationship communication problems. She aims to help people build resilience and clearer steps forward.
Marilyn meets with clients using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She invites people to take the first step when they are ready and to work together toward practical changes and greater emotional balance.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Marilyn frequently uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and breathing skills that help reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.She also draws from client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening, respect, and the client's own goals. Choosing the right approach is collaborative - Marilyn will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, values, and preferences as treatment progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and skill practice, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people send updates or questions between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain ongoing work on anxiety, stress, and other concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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