About Marilyn
Marilyn Davis is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 19 years of clinical experience based in Oklahoma. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, parenting challenges, and other life transitions. Her style is grounded and team-oriented, aiming to help clients set clear goals and build coping skills.
She has worked across school, community, and independent practice settings. Much of her background includes helping teens in special education and supporting people with autism, intellectual disability, and trauma histories.
Background and approach
That range gives her practical experience with real-life challenges that affect daily functioning. In sessions she takes a respectful, collaborative approach. She listens first, then helps identify small, manageable steps toward change.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and client-centered principles to make therapy concrete and usable. Her work also incorporates elements of acceptance and commitment ideas and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotional regulation or distress tolerance is needed. The goal is to help people strengthen resilience and build routines that support wellbeing over time.
Marilyn aims to make therapy understandable and relevant. She focuses on clear plans, teachable skills, and steady progress. Parents and individuals looking for practical tools and straightforward guidance often find this approach helpful.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, mood, and ADHD-related routines. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment attention and simple practices to reduce reactivity and build emotional balance, which supports stress and anger management.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and day-to-day demands, then suggest which methods to try. Plans can be adjusted as work proceeds so methods match what actually helps the client most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for full sessions and skills practice, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in, and messaging or live chat can support brief updates, homework checks, or when a written format fits better. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue care from wherever a person is located in Oklahoma.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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