Dana Juarez

Dana Juarez is a licensed marriage and family therapist with nine years of experience helping people sort through relationship and life changes. She earned a Master of Arts in Marriage & Family Therapy from Liberty University and practices in Oklahoma. Dana brings a direct, no-nonsense style shaped in part by her prior service in the US Marines. Dana focuses on clear goals and practical steps. She listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients choose small, usable changes. She leans on approaches that target thinking patterns, problem solving, and how past events affect current reactions. She commonly works with people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, trauma and abuse, anxiety, and depression. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment wounds, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and communication problems. In sessions Dana balances encouragement with challenge. She will offer insight, suggest skills to try between meetings, and work with clients to adjust strategies when something isn't helping. Her aim is to empower people to move toward the life they want. People who appreciate straightforward feedback and a practical plan tend to fit well with her style. Those seeking help for intimacy issues, coping with change, or improving family relationships may find her approach useful.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person in front of the therapist. It centers the client's goals and values and helps people gain clarity about what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used when past traumatic events continue to cause distress; it involves structured processing to reduce the intensity of those memories. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying CBT techniques for anxiety, using EMDR for trauma-related reactions, or keeping sessions focused on problem-solving and immediate concerns. Confirm which session formats are offered before booking, since the biography does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, shorten commute time, and allow for quicker check-ins between in-person visits. It can also accommodate people who prefer fewer in-person visits while still working through relationships, trauma, parenting challenges, and stress with a licensed professional.