About Damara
Damara Ferguson greets people with a calm, direct approach to common concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and low self-esteem. She is a licensed clinical social worker in Ohio with LCSW and LISW credentials and 16 years of experience. Damara focuses on helping clients manage life changes and cope with overwhelming feelings.
She uses clear, practical conversation to map out what matters most to each person. Damara tailors sessions to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Conversations move at a steady, practical pace. She listens for patterns that get in the way, such as negative self-talk or repeated relationship clashes. Then she helps build small, doable changes that fit into daily life.
Her work often addresses trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strains, and challenges like ADHD, bipolar concerns, or chronic health problems. She also supports people facing adoption or foster care issues, abandonment wounds, and attachment struggles. Damara pays attention to how past experiences shape present choices.
In sessions she uses a mix of approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and attachment-based ideas. The methods are presented plainly and linked to real tasks you can try between meetings. Damara helps people practice new skills and notice what shifts.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible scheduling. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Damara commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people make practical changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and finding what matters most, then taking action that aligns with those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks down unhelpful thinking and tests different behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Damara works collaboratively to see which methods match a person’s goals and preferences. She will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful in real life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit varied schedules. Video calls let you work face to face from wherever you are. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a quick check-in during a break. Live chat and text work well for shorter updates, ongoing coaching, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options aim to increase flexibility and help people keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Oregon
- Languages
- English