About Damara
Damara Ferguson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and low self-esteem. She works with adults who are coping with life changes, relationship strain, grief, or challenges like ADHD and bipolar concerns. Damara speaks plainly and keeps sessions focused on practical next steps.
She brings 16 years of experience in clinical practice across Ohio. Her style is collaborative and warm; she listens first and then helps clients name what matters most.
Background and approach
Damara tailors conversations and strategies to each person's situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions often focus on skills to manage strong emotions, reduce unhelpful thinking patterns, and build everyday routines. She uses tools from acceptance-based and cognitive approaches alongside emotion-focused work to help people cope and make changes that last.
Therapy can include short-term skills coaching or longer work on deeper patterns. Damara also addresses concerns tied to family roles, parenting stress, caregiving burdens, body image, and trauma or abandonment issues. She will work with clients to set clear, achievable goals and track progress in simple terms.
Her approach aims to make therapy feel useful from the first few sessions. If someone is unsure where to begin, Damara helps clarify priorities and creates a straightforward plan. She encourages small experiments between sessions so people can try new ways of responding and see real change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking small, value-driven actions even when emotions are hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating and regulating emotions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan so the approach fits the client's needs and pace.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions let therapists observe reactions and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can work well for shorter check-ins. Live chat or text messaging can support quick coaching, homework check-ins, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while focusing on practical skills and steady progress.
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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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