Dhana Clarkson, LMHC

Dhana Clarkson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with more than 15 years of professional counseling experience. She approaches therapy with a positive, encouraging stance and emphasizes practical, solution-focused work that is tailored to each person's unique situation. Drawing on a broad base of clinical skills, she blends techniques from multiple psychotherapies to design a personalized plan that fits a client's goals and style.

She attends to the whole person, taking into account how physical health and life circumstances can influence mood and functioning. Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, anger, depression, and coping with major life changes. She also focuses on related concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, body image, guilt and shame, isolation, life purpose, financial worries, mood disorders, panic, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and social anxiety.

Dhana values a trusting, personal, and respectful helping relationship and offers an approach that is encouraging, problem-solving, and crafted to meet individual needs. As a Christian, she is available to explore presenting issues from a faith perspective when that is helpful to the client. She welcomes contact from those ready to take a next step toward change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Dhana uses several established approaches to guide online work, beginning with Attachment-Based Therapy, which looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps with issues like abandonment, intimacy, and relationship challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and panic and to improve daily coping skills. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, acceptance, and the client’s own capacity for growth, supporting improvements in self-esteem, self-love, and personal insight.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Dhana collaborates with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress and circumstances evolve. This collaborative stance helps tailor treatment to the individual rather than using a one-size-fits-all model.

Online therapy with Dhana is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility to fit sessions into busy schedules or across time zones. These options make it easier to access consistent support, maintain momentum between meetings, and continue work from wherever a person is located while working with a licensed professional.