Works with
- Anger
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
How Damara works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW, LISW-CP
- Licensed in
- South Carolina, New York, Texas
- Years in practice
- 12
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Damara
Damara Israel is a licensed social worker based in New York with 12 years of clinical experience. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) credential and a Licensed Independent Social Worker-Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) credential, and she focuses on helping people manage strong emotions and life stressors. Her work often addresses anger, addiction, grief, and career-related struggles.
Clients can expect straightforward conversations that focus on clear goals. She emphasizes practical skills for handling impulses, communication problems, and feelings of isolation.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build better self-understanding and more reliable daily habits. Damara uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and learn emotion-regulation skills. She also incorporates mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support readiness for change and present-moment awareness.
These approaches are used to address problems such as compulsive reactions, shame, and control issues. Her background includes work with professionals facing workplace strain and people coping with big transitions. She pays attention to how trauma and culture shape reactions and choices.
That lets her tailor practical steps to each person’s situation. Sessions are designed for steady progress rather than quick fixes. Damara helps clients set realistic, measurable goals and practices new skills in session so they can use them outside therapy.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process toward clearer thinking and calmer responses.
What Damara works with
Everything Damara lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Damara's practice.
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Anger management
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Damara lists
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Damara commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and the behaviors that follow. CBT is useful for anger, impulsivity, and work-related stress because it focuses on concrete techniques and practiceable skills.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion-regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. DBT tools are practical for strong emotions, compulsive reactions, and relationship communication problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Damara collaborates with each person to choose and adapt methods based on goals, preferences, and the issues at hand. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques when something isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals and include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and role play. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a short update is needed between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
Questions people ask about Damara
What kinds of concerns does Damara address?
She works with people facing anger, addictions, grief, career stress, and coping with life changes. Additional areas include body image, impulsivity, isolation, and midlife transitions.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and collaborative, focusing on skills and measurable goals. Sessions include clear strategies for emotion regulation and communication.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Damara has 12 years of clinical experience working with adults on emotional and life transition issues.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is listed as LCSW and LISW-CP, with licensure in New York and South Carolina, and her practice is based in New York.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
In what formats can sessions take place?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How do fees and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.