Dana Juarez, LMFT

Dana Juarez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Oklahoma with nine years of experience in mental health. She draws on a practical, direct style shaped by years of service in the US Marines. Dana focuses on helping people navigate relationship strains, trauma, grief, parenting challenges, and stress-related concerns.

She favors straightforward, goal-oriented work. Sessions tend to be collaborative and focused on concrete steps clients can try between meetings. Dana balances encouragement with gentle challenge to help people move past patterns that keep them stuck.

Her work commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build different behavior patterns. She also uses client-centered methods to keep the client’s goals central and EMDR when trauma processing is needed. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods are part of her toolkit for short-term change and building momentum.

Dana has experience with a wide range of concerns beyond core relationship and trauma issues. These include communication problems, blended family stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness impact, and feelings of emptiness, guilt, or shame. She also supports people facing divorce, separation, or family-of-origin wounds.

In sessions she aims to make things understandable and doable. She helps people set clear goals, try practical skills, and track progress. Her approach is intended to be respectful, direct, and tied to real-life changes clients want to make.

Online methods and focused approaches

Dana commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify patterns of thinking that contribute to distress and then test new ways of thinking and acting; CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. She also uses client-centered therapy to keep the session focused on the client's own goals and values, offering empathy and reflection to support decision-making. For clients processing traumatic memories, she uses EMDR techniques aimed at reducing the intensity of distressing memories and supporting trauma integration.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dana will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level, and she can adjust strategies over time based on progress and feedback.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face interaction, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging allows brief updates or exercises between sessions. These formats aim to make care more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.