About Damon
Damon Mckenzie is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Arkansas with four years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. He also supports those facing relationship strain, family conflict, trauma, bereavement, and questions about intimacy and identity.
He approaches therapy believing each person knows their own story. He listens first, then helps clients find the next steps that feel right for them.
How Damon works
Sessions are guided by respect for a client's strengths and by practical steps to reduce distress. Damon uses a mix of approaches that match each person's needs. That can mean looking at unhelpful thinking patterns with cognitive behavioral therapy, working through painful memories with trauma-focused tools, or using narrative work to reframe how a person understands their life.
He also draws on client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in the client's priorities. People often come to him for issues tied to family of origin, parenting stresses, blended family challenges, abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and recovery from domestic violence or substance concerns. He also addresses body image, codependency, and career stress in straightforward ways.
Sessions are offered in English and available through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Damon aims to make therapy practical and relatable, helping clients set clear goals and build skills they can use between sessions.
Damon lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Damon works with
The areas below are the ones Damon selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arkansas |
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Online support options
How Damon’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client's perspective and personal goals, offering an accepting space where the therapist follows the client's lead and highlights strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and gives practical exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns. Trauma-Focused Therapy targets processing traumatic experiences with techniques that help reduce their ongoing impact and build coping skills.Damon treats finding the best approach as a collaborative process. He will talk with the client about goals, try methods that suit those goals, and adjust the plan over time. The therapist and client work together to choose tools that feel useful and doable for everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexibility that helps people fit care into busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face for deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when on-camera time is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, brief coping reminders, or ongoing support between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice skills consistently.
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