About Damara
Damara Ferguson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction issues, and ADHD. She brings a calm, straightforward approach and focuses on practical steps that fit everyday life. Damara welcomes honest conversations and adapts her work to each person’s needs.
With 16 years of experience, Damara uses therapies that emphasize present-moment choices and clearer thinking. She draws on approaches that help people notice patterns, build coping skills, and strengthen important relationships.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to break down difficult problems into manageable steps. Damara favors a collaborative style. She listens first, then offers strategies you can try between visits.
Some work focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts, while other work focuses on accepting hard feelings and moving toward values-based goals. People often come for help with grief, trauma, self-esteem, parenting stress, workplace pressure, or mood swings that get in the way of daily life.
Damara also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiver strain, and relationship conflict by helping them set realistic goals and boundaries. Her conversations are direct but compassionate, with concrete tools you can practice. She tailors recommendations to what actually fits your schedule and energy.
If you prefer short check-ins or longer weekly sessions, she helps you find a rhythm that works.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking small steps toward what matters most. It can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related overwhelm, and decision making. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with practical exercises and homework. It is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people build healthier ways of relating to others.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Damara will talk with clients about goals, try methods that match their needs, and adjust as progress is made. That collaborative process helps pinpoint which tools are most useful for daily life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you see body language and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support quick reflections, brief coaching, or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still using ACT, CBT, or attachment-focused exercises.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- 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
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