About Dana
Dana Dodson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma. She brings 12 years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Dana writes plainly and listens closely so parents and individuals can say what matters without jargon or pressure.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. She uses client-centered methods to make room for each person's perspective. Cognitive behavioral tools are used to spot unhelpful thinking and test small changes that can improve daily life.
How Dana works
Dana also draws on mindfulness practices to help people reduce reactivity and increase calm. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies guide goal-setting and keep sessions forward-moving. Together these approaches help with grief, trauma, intimacy-related concerns, sleep problems, and parenting stress.
She has worked with clients facing complicated histories such as adoption and foster care, abandonment, attachment concerns, and blended family issues. Dana also supports people navigating chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image struggles, and career transitions. Sessions are offered in English and include video, phone, live chat, or text messaging formats.
Dana encourages small steps and practical experiments between sessions so progress feels tangible. If you are ready to begin, the process starts with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
Dana lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Dana works with
The areas below are the ones Dana 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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and making the therapy room a place to talk without judgment. It helps when someone needs to feel heard and begin making changes at their own pace.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It offers simple exercises to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety or lift mood.
Mindfulness therapy teaches practical ways to notice how the body and mind respond to stress. Those skills can improve sleep, lower reactivity, and make difficult emotions easier to sit with for a moment.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Dana will work with each person to figure out which methods match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She blends approaches as needed and sets concrete, achievable steps so progress is clear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text work well for quick check-ins or short coaching-style exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy around parenting, work, and other commitments.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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