Dhana Clarkson, LMHC

Dhana Clarkson is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience offering practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addictions. She provides straightforward support for relationship and intimacy concerns, anger, trauma and abuse, and issues around self-esteem and purpose. Parents reading on a phone will find short, direct guidance and a calm, encouraging tone.

Dhana focuses on problem solving and building skills clients can use between sessions. She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered and attachment-informed approaches to match each person’s needs. She also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help with motivation and managing strong feelings.

Sessions emphasize clear steps and realistic goals. Conversations tend to look at thoughts, behaviors, and practical coping tools. Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk through shame, guilt, loneliness, or control struggles.

She pays attention to how physical health and life stressors affect mood. Dhana is open to addressing faith or spiritual concerns when clients want those included in care. She works with a range of life changes, from financial stress and career shifts to recovery from loss or trauma.

Based in Florida, Dhana offers multiple ways to connect and uses a collaborative style. She helps people identify what matters to them and then builds simple plans to move forward, week by week.

Approaches and What Online Sessions Can Offer

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice how they connect, cling, or pull away in close relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with simpler, more effective patterns to reduce anxiety, panic, or mood symptoms. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and emphasizes empathy and collaboration so clients feel heard while deciding next steps.

Dhana will work together with each person to decide which approaches to try. That means reviewing goals, testing practical strategies, and adjusting the plan when something does not fit. The process is collaborative, with the therapist and client choosing tools that match the client’s needs and preferences.

Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls let people use face-to-face time for skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions or live chat can be shorter or more convenient when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Text-based messaging supports quick check-ins and ongoing motivation between sessions. These options allow flexible, consistent progress without a commute.