Dhana Clarkson , LMHC

With more than 15 years as a professional counselor, Dhana Clarkson brings experience and a strengths-based outlook to clinical care. She is an LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) who emphasizes a positive, encouraging, and solution-focused style that is tailored to each person's situation. Using problem-solving skills and clinical training, she blends techniques from multiple psychotherapies to create individualized plans that reflect the needs and goals of each client.

Clarkson values a trusting, personal, and respectful helping relationship as the foundation for progress, and she attends to the whole person by considering how physical health and life circumstances may influence mood and functioning. Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family issues, trauma and grief, self-esteem and body image, and other mood and adjustment challenges.

As a Christian clinician, she can incorporate a faith perspective into sessions when clients wish to explore spiritual concerns alongside therapeutic goals. Her approach is adaptive and collaborative, centering the client while drawing on clinical skills and personal creativity to support growth and coping.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Dhana Clarkson

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns of connection and trust. In practice this approach helps clients explore attachment wounds, address abandonment or intimacy concerns, and build more secure ways of relating to partners and family members.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a practical, skills-oriented method that helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more adaptive patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and stress-related problems.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship where the therapist listens carefully and follows the client’s pace. This approach supports self-exploration, self-acceptance, and personal growth across a range of life challenges.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Dhana works with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts interventions over time to reflect progress and changing priorities.

Online therapy with licensed professionals offers flexible ways to engage in care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, connect across distances including international arrangements, and maintain continuity of care when in-person visits are difficult.