About Obaogodara
Obaogodara (Preference: Dara) Oluwasanmi is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in New York. She brings six years of counseling experience and works with people facing anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, addiction, and grief. Dara aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for anyone feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
She focuses on building a strong working relationship. Sessions start with listening to what matters most and setting simple goals together. Dara uses plain language and practical steps so clients can try things between meetings and track small wins.
Background and approach
Dara draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that cause distress. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the conversation grounded in the client’s priorities. Mindfulness techniques are included to teach breathing and attention skills for managing strong emotions.
Her background includes work with people who have severe persistent mental illness and a range of clinical concerns, including trauma, relationship struggles, self-esteem, eating issues, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. This experience informs a calm, steady approach when problems feel complex. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and pace.
Dara emphasizes respect, empathy, and collaboration while creating clear, achievable steps. She encourages people to view seeking help as a brave first move toward feeling better.
How Dara’s Approaches Fit Online Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following each person’s priorities. In online sessions this means starting where the client is and shaping goals that feel doable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with small experiments and new skills to test between sessions; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and patterns connected to addiction or anger.Choosing a therapeutic approach is part of the work together. Dara will talk through options and tailor methods to the client’s goals, preferences, and daily life. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as needs shift.
Online therapy offers different ways to meet depending on what fits someone’s routine. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging lets people check in, do short skills practice, or get support between longer sessions. These formats make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English