Marilyn Davis, LPC

Marilyn Davis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma with 19 years of clinical experience. She has provided direct mental health services across school, inpatient, and private practice settings. Her background includes work with children, teenagers, and adults who face anxiety, stress, autism, intellectual disability, trauma, depression, ADHD, and anger.

Marilyn favors a team approach in sessions and shows respect for individual differences. She draws on methods from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, dialectical behavior ideas, and acceptance and commitment principles. Sessions focus on clear goals chosen together and practical steps a person can try between meetings.

Her experience includes supporting teens who have Individualized Education Plans in special education and offering individual work in community settings. She has also contributed to research in academic and inpatient treatment contexts. That variety informs a practical, flexible way of working.

In sessions Marilyn aims to make people feel heard and treated with compassion and respect. She emphasizes building strength, resilience, and skills that help with everyday challenges like stress, grief, parenting demands, chronic illness, or major life changes.

Taking the first step toward change can feel hard, and Marilyn positions herself as a collaborative companion in that process. People who value a respectful, goal-oriented partnership may find her approach helpful.

Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that line up with what matters. It can help people stuck by chronic stress, grief, or long-term health issues to move toward meaningful activities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and anger by using concrete exercises and experiments.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Marilyn will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can change as progress is made, and sessions are meant to be flexible to reflect what is working.

If you are considering online therapy, check the current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online meetings can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time when juggling appointments or caregiving. Licensed professionals can still teach CBT exercises, walk through ACT values work, and use mindfulness practices effectively through remote sessions, with adaptations to the person’s daily routine and goals.