About Obaogodara
Obaogodara (Preference: Dara) Oluwasanmi is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She has six years of professional experience working with people facing anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and addiction concerns. Dara centers each meeting on respect and working together toward clear goals.
Dara focuses on building a trusting connection first. She uses short-term and practical strategies so sessions feel useful from the start. Meetings are collaborative - she asks about what you want to change and then helps map small, doable steps.
Background and approach
Her background includes several years supporting people with persistent mental health challenges in clinical settings. That experience shaped her ability to work with complicated or overlapping issues like trauma, grief, and co-occurring conditions. She also helps people dealing with career stress, body image worries, and relationship strain.
Therapy sessions tend to draw on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Client-centered methods keep the work grounded in each person’s values and priorities. Mindfulness tools and motivational interviewing are added when people want skills for mood regulation and sustaining change.
Dara individualizes treatment plans to the problem at hand. She believes steady progress comes from small, consistent steps and from partners agreeing on the next actions. If you want practical tools and a calm, collaborative approach, she may be a good fit.
How Dara Uses Therapy Methods Online
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s priorities first. Sessions focus on the client’s concerns and values, and Dara follows the client’s lead to decide what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to talk through anxiety or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Dara uses CBT to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with practical alternatives for managing anxiety, low mood, or addictive urges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dara will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then test methods that suit those aims. That collaborative process helps tailor tools like mindfulness practice or motivational interviewing to real-life challenges.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good shorter check-in option. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or get support in brief moments. These options create flexibility for people juggling work, family, or health needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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