Anxiety
Worry that never quite switches off, treated with practical CBT so your days feel steadier.
Online Therapy in Arkansas
Arkansas adults and seniors, couples working through something together, families, and parents of children or adolescents meet with our psychologist or our counselor by secure video, and keep the same clinician wherever life takes them in the state.
Currently accepting new clients
Request an Arkansas appointmentPeople come to us from Arkansas for a mix of reasons, and one recurring theme is that their life does not sit still. Work moves a family household from Jonesboro to Springdale. A younger child needs steady support after a move, or a teenager in Little Rock hits a rough patch at school while a parent travels three nights a week on the road. Therapy attached to one street address tends to end when schedules shift between Conway and Fort Smith, whereas a virtual practice stays put.
We also work closely with individual adults, couples, and older adults here, focusing on ordinary difficulties that have grown too heavy to carry alone. That might mean a marriage gone quiet in Rogers, a stretch of sleeplessness that will not break, or an older retiree in Fayetteville adjusting to health changes or grief that arrived a year ago and has not moved since. Everything is confidential, and the privacy of meeting from home matters in a small town where every parked car is recognized.
Online Therapy Services in Arkansas
Six of this practice's areas come up most with Arkansas clients, and the clinician will say early on whether what you are describing is a good fit for this setting.
Anxiety, Stress & Social Phobia
Anxiety treatment is concrete. You leave each session with something specific to try, report back on what happened, and adjust from there, instead of spending months discussing worry in the abstract.
Grief, Loss & End of Life Care
Grief keeps no schedule. We make space for the relationship that ended, complicated parts included, and for the practical weight that falls on whoever is left managing a household alone.
Career Planning & Professional Growth
Some clients arrive with a work problem rather than a symptom: a promotion that stopped feeling possible, a field they no longer believe in. We separate a clear look at ability and interest from the fear underneath the decision.
Emotional Regulation & Anger Management
For anger we examine the sequence — what precedes an escalation, what the body does first, what it has already cost at home — and build responses usable before the point of no return.
Couples & Relationship Health
Partners can attend from one room or from two, which sometimes helps when one of them travels for work. Either way the focus is the cycle both people are caught inside.
Chronic Pain, Illness & Headaches
Living with pain or long illness alters sleep, mood, and identity. Psychological care does not replace medical treatment; it addresses the fear, the lost activity, and the strain on people nearby.
Concerns We Help With
Whether you meet us by secure video or in person at our Flagstaff office, these are the concerns we most often help with.
Depression
Low mood that drains interest and energy, met with patient, structured care that rebuilds one step at a time.
Trauma
Careful, paced work for difficult experiences, with you in control of what you share and when.
ADHD assessment and coaching
Clear testing when you need answers, and practical coaching for the schedules and habits that follow.
Young adults
Support through the first years on your own: school, work, independence, and the relationships that come with them.
Burnout and stress
For professionals running on empty: therapy for the exhaustion, and coaching for the work habits underneath it.
How we work with clients in Arkansas
We start with the assumption that you are an inherently capable individual facing circumstances that have simply outpaced your usual coping strategies. For Arkansas clients, our work begins with a thorough evaluation to prevent wasting time on vague assumptions. From there, we identify actionable goals that make sense to you. The foundation of our method rests on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which requires ongoing, active participation. Since we do not offer a quick fix, we generally meet weekly over a period of months. Throughout this time, we openly monitor your progress and will plainly tell you if a specific technique is not yielding the desired results, allowing us to pivot effectively.
Your Arkansas Care Team
Arkansas clients may work with Dr. Della S. Lusk, this practice's Clinical Director, for psychological services, or with Alethea Braun-Dunagan, M.A., LPC, for counseling. Between them they see adults, adolescents, couples, and whole families.
Psychological Services
Della S. Lusk, Ph.D.
Clinical Director · Bilingual Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Lusk holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™) granted by the PSYPACT® Commission, which authorizes her to provide telepsychology to clients located in Arkansas.
Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., has practiced psychology for more than two and a half decades. Educated at Smith College, she completed an APA-accredited doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology–San Diego. Arkansas clients see her under her interjurisdictional telepsychology authority for therapy with individuals, couples, and families and for group work; psychological evaluation is also part of her practice, with any instrument that must be given in person administered at our Flagstaff office.
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Counseling Services
Alethea Braun-Dunagan, M.A.
Licensed Professional Counselor
Ms. Braun-Dunagan provides counseling to clients located in Arkansas through the Counseling Compact™, and has availability for Medicare and TriCare West clients.
Alethea Braun-Dunagan, M.A., LPC, sees clients located in Arkansas under her Counseling Compact™ privilege. She works with children, adolescents, and adults, bringing Cognitive Behavioral techniques into a warm, holistic approach shaped around each person's goals. Her interests include women's issues, postpartum mood concerns, stress management, and relapse prevention, and with young people she brings particular care to trauma and to mending relationships at home. As our intake specialist she is often the first person new clients meet, and she has availability for Medicare and TriCare West clients.
Request an appointmentFull biographies, training, and areas of expertise are listed on our providers page. You can also read Dr. Lusk’s licensure and credentials and Ms. Braun-Dunagan’s licensure and areas of focus in full. You are welcome to ask any clinician directly about their qualifications and experience.
How telehealth licensing works in Arkansas
For psychology, the arrangement that makes these appointments lawful is an interstate compact for telepsychology. Arkansas is one of the participating jurisdictions, and Dr. Lusk, licensed as a psychologist in Arizona, holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology issued by the PSYPACT® Commission. Those two facts together let her treat someone in Arkansas by secure video. No separate state registration is needed from you or from the practice.
Arkansas is also a member of the Counseling Compact™, and counseling with Ms. Braun-Dunagan, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Arizona, rests on her privilege to practice under it. The two agreements cover different work: psychological testing belongs to psychology, so evaluations stay with Dr. Lusk.
Authorization attaches to your physical position during the hour we meet. Being an Arkansas resident is not the test; being in Arkansas is. Clients who drive for a living, or who spend weeks at a site somewhere else, should hand the office their travel dates, and we check each destination against the list of covered jurisdictions before confirming those sessions. A permanent move deserves a conversation as early as you can manage one.
Participating jurisdictions are published by the compact commissions and can change. You can review current psychology participation at psypact.gov, find the relevant psychology licensing board through the PSYPACT® board directory, or check counseling privileges at CompactConnect. If you are not sure which applies to you, call (844) 774-7997 and we will confirm before you schedule.
Arkansas students, faculty, and staff
Arkansas spreads its students across many campuses. Among the public ones we work with University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), Arkansas State University, University of Central Arkansas, Arkansas Tech University, and University of Arkansas at Little Rock; among the private, Hendrix College, Ouachita Baptist University, Lyon College, and Harding University. Students, faculty, and staff are all seen.
All Arkansas campuses we have worked with
Public Universities
- University of Arkansas (Fayetteville)
- Arkansas State University
- University of Central Arkansas
- Arkansas Tech University
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock
- Southern Arkansas University
- University of Arkansas at Monticello
- University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
- Henderson State University
Private Colleges & Universities
- Hendrix College
- Ouachita Baptist University
- Lyon College
- Harding University
- John Brown University
- University of the Ozarks
- Philander Smith University
- Williams Baptist University
Arkansas Communities We Serve Online
Little Rock, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Springdale, Jonesboro, Conway, and Rogers are where most of our Arkansas appointments originate, but the format is indifferent to that. A farmhouse with one door closed works as well as an apartment in a city.
Questions Arkansas clients ask
What if I move out of Arkansas partway through treatment?
Tell us as soon as you know. When the new state takes part in the same interstate agreement your clinician practices under, the work usually continues without interruption. When it does not, your clinician helps you find someone there and, with your written permission, passes along what a new provider needs, so you are not starting the story from the beginning.
Do I need a referral or a diagnosis to make an appointment?
No. Most people call because something has become hard to manage, not because a physician sent them. Part of what the first appointment is for is working out what is going on and whether this practice is the right place for it. Records from previous care are useful if you have them, but they are not required.
Is a video session as confidential as an office visit?
The platform is secure and the clinician sits in a private room. The variable is usually your end: headphones help, a closed door helps, and a parked car is a legitimate option when the house is full. We discuss your setup at intake and rework the plan if privacy at home is a genuine problem.
Can you see us as a couple if one partner is out of state that week?
Not reliably, because both people's locations matter. When one partner is traveling we generally reschedule or hold an individual session with whoever is in Arkansas. Give us your travel calendar and we will lay the joint appointments out across the weeks you will both be here.
How much do sessions cost?
Our rates are sent in a fee agreement when you schedule an appointment. Our office answers any out-of-network questions in advance of a first appointment. Reach staff at (844) 774-7997 or info@psychotherapy.com and ask for whatever detail you want. An hour goes on the calendar only after that has been settled.
How to get started in Arkansas
A first appointment starts in our secure online scheduler: pick a time with Dr. Lusk or Ms. Braun-Dunagan and tell us briefly what you hope to change. The office will confirm that you will be in Arkansas at session time, send the fee agreement, and confirm your first hour.
Prefer to talk first? Call or email the office.
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