Douglas Strange
Experienced counselor blending practical recovery insight
LPC Oklahoma
- Experience
- 12 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Douglas
Douglas Strange brings a long personal and professional journey to his work as a licensed professional counselor. He draws on decades of life experience, including military service and extensive time in sales and management, combined with a deep, personal history of recovery from addiction.
Background and approach
With 12 years in the mental health field, Douglas emphasizes resilience and practical application of psychological principles, encouraging clients to build on their own strengths to create meaningful change. His approach blends an emphasis on respect, grace, mercy, and a non-judgmental stance with evidence-informed practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and existential exploration.
Douglas focuses on concerns like stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, depression, addictions, relationship and anger issues, and coping with life changes, along with specific attention to drug and alcohol addiction, process addictions, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and questions of life purpose.
He offers therapy in English from his Oklahoma practice and frames work as collaborative coaching toward the goals each client brings. Douglas balances practical problem-solving with attention to meaning and values, aiming to help people find steadiness and forward momentum even after difficult experiences.
Practical Approaches and Online Access to Therapy
Douglas integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and existential perspectives to guide online work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and problematic coping, offering concrete strategies for day-to-day challenges. Existential Therapy invites exploration of personal meaning, values, and life purpose, helping clients facing grief, major life changes, or questions about direction and responsibility.Choosing an approach is collaborative; Douglas will work with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. He aims to combine practical skill-building with attention to values so clients can both manage immediate concerns and clarify what matters most to them.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility for busy schedules and varying comfort levels. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care, access support from home, and adapt frequency or style of contact as progress and life demands evolve.
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Experience
12+ years
Licensed
Oklahoma
Languages
English