About Dana
Dana Dodson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma who uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family concerns. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful. Dana focuses on building a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak openly about difficult feelings.
With 12 years of experience, Dana has worked with adults facing a wide range of life challenges.
Background and approach
She helps people cope with grief, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger, and career transitions. She also supports those dealing with ADHD, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related concerns. Dana integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She uses mindfulness practices to ground clients during moments of stress. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy are part of her toolbox for people who want practical steps and goals. Sessions emphasize collaboration.
Dana listens first, then helps map small, achievable changes that fit each person’s life. She works with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, attachment problems, body image, chronic illness, and caregiving stress. Her style is straightforward and compassionate.
Conversations are paced to the client’s comfort, with a mix of talking, skill-building, and simple exercises to practice between sessions. Dana encourages realistic goals and clear ways to track progress.
How Dana’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship. In practice this means the therapist mirrors your concerns, asks open questions, and helps you set the pace for change. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive space to talk through stress, grief, or relationship worries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thinking, trying new behaviors, and practicing simple skills between meetings. CBT can help with anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and stress by giving clear steps to try.
Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to the present moment through short, practical exercises. It can reduce reactivity in stressful moments and support better sleep and emotion regulation.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Dana will help clients decide which methods match their goals and preferences, and she adapts plans as progress is tracked. That collaborative process helps shape a treatment path that fits each person’s life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is an issue or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style exchanges, and follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity during busy schedules or life changes.
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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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