Dhana Clarkson

Dhana Clarkson is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She focuses on coping with life changes and related concerns like grief, relationship strain, and self-esteem. She speaks English and works with clients in Florida, and she also accepts international clients.

Dhana uses a hopeful, problem-solving style in sessions. She listens for what matters most and then crafts a plan that fits each person. Sessions often focus on practical steps, clearer thinking, and building skills that can be used between meetings.

Her approach draws on methods such as attachment-based work, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She mixes ideas from different therapies to create a personalized path. The intent is to give straightforward tools rather than long lists of theory.

She pays attention to how physical health, faith, and daily routines affect mood and coping. As a Christian, she is open to addressing issues from a faith perspective when clients want that included. Dhana also helps people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, anger, panic, and multicultural concerns.

Overall, sessions are organized around clear goals and small, doable steps. She aims to be encouraging while helping people test new behaviors and notice progress. To begin, clients complete a short intake and then set a schedule that fits their needs.

How Dhana’s approaches translate to online work

Dhana often draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand how early relationships shape current patterns. This work focuses on recognizing relationship cycles, improving emotional connection, and noticing how past wounds show up now. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors; it offers simple experiments and skills for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns. Motivational interviewing helps when change feels hard by supporting personal motivation and clarifying values in a nonjudgmental way.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods feel most useful. That collaborative process includes checking goals, trying approaches, and adjusting based on what helps.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm available session options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit care into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people continue work when they are away from their usual location. Licensed professionals can adapt attachment-focused conversations, CBT exercises, and motivational strategies to remote sessions while helping people practice skills between meetings.