Anxiety
Worry that never quite switches off, treated with practical CBT so your days feel steadier.
Online Therapy Across Oklahoma
When the nearest office in Oklahoma is an hour's drive or more, seeing a psychologist or counselor online saves the trip for seniors, couples, and adults, and for families with adolescents or children.
Currently accepting new clients
Request an Oklahoma appointmentA great deal of this state lies well outside the reach of Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Someone living near Chickasha, or farther out toward the panhandle, may count the trip to a psychologist in hours rather than minutes, and that arithmetic often decides whether care begins at all. We see young children, teenagers, working adults, and couples by secure video throughout Oklahoma. That means a family appointment or an hour for an older parent in Lawton costs you only the time the conversation lasts instead of most of a working day.
Distance is not the only reason people here prefer video. Agricultural and oilfield schedules do not divide neatly into weekday office hours, and privacy is scarce in a town small enough that a parked car gets recognized. Meeting from your own kitchen table settles both problems for a retiree or a busy household, provided the connection holds and the door closes. Oklahoma is a participating state in PSYPACT®, and it is the state you are physically sitting in during the hour that authorizes the appointment.
Online Therapy Services in Oklahoma
Below are the concerns that bring most Oklahoma clients to us. If what you are carrying is not on the list, call the office and we will say honestly whether we can help.
Anxiety, Stress & Social Phobia
Chronic worry narrows a life quietly: fewer calls returned, fewer invitations accepted, more routes around the thing you dread. Therapy takes on the thoughts driving the alarm, then the gradual business of walking back into what you have been avoiding.
Trauma, PTSD & Complex Trauma
Highway and farm accidents, violence, and harm in childhood can leave a body that will not stand down. Early sessions build footing for sleep and arousal well before any detailed account of the event itself is approached.
Depression & Mood Disorders
When mood has been flat for months the work is partly practical: reinstating sleep and movement, restoring contact with people, and then examining the conclusions you have quietly drawn about yourself along the way.
Grief, Loss & End of Life Care
Grief after a death, a diagnosis, or the sale of a family place keeps no schedule. Sessions make room for all of it, including the guilt and relief that so often arrive beside sadness in a caregiving family.
Emotional Regulation & Anger Management
Anger that has cost jobs or frightened a household is treated as a pattern with warning signs rather than a character defect. We chart the build-up, find where it can be interrupted, and practice repair with the people affected.
Psychological & Academic Evaluations
An evaluation answers one defined question, such as clarifying a diagnosis or documenting a student's support needs. Whether a given assessment suits a remote format is settled in consultation with Dr. Lusk before any of it is scheduled.
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 Oklahoma clients
We are deliberate about our pace and clear about what counseling can achieve. For Oklahoma clients, therapy often involves planning around harvest weeks, shift rotations, and the long drives that can make a scheduled Tuesday hour impossible. We accommodate these realities so that a missed session is simply rescheduled. We rely on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to guide individuals, college students, and families through their specific challenges. Enduring change takes time, and we do not offer a quick fix. By establishing written goals early, adults and professionals can clearly see their own progress. We adapt our evidence-based methods to respect your household's cultural background, ensuring the strategies we develop together provide reliable support long after your time in therapy is complete.
Your Oklahoma clinician
Oklahoma clients may work with Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., for psychological services, or with Alethea Braun-Dunagan, M.A., LPC, for counseling. Whichever clinician you choose, the person you meet in a first appointment is the person you go on meeting, and nothing has to be explained twice.
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 Oklahoma.
Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and the practice's clinical director, with over twenty-five years of clinical work behind her. She took her A.B. at Smith College and her doctorate in clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology–San Diego, an APA-accredited program. Oklahoma clients see her individually, as couples, and as families. She conducts psychological evaluations as well; the in-person portion of any testing is held 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 Oklahoma through the Counseling Compact™, and has availability for Medicare and TriCare West clients.
Alethea Braun-Dunagan, M.A., LPC, counsels clients located in Oklahoma under her Counseling Compact™ privilege. She sees children, adolescents, and adults, and shapes the work around each person's age, circumstances, culture, and readiness for change rather than fitting everyone to one plan. Cognitive Behavioral techniques sit inside a holistic approach, with particular attention to women's issues, postpartum mood concerns, relapse prevention, and young people recovering from trauma. As our intake specialist she can also help you decide which clinician fits, 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.
The licensing basis for Oklahoma appointments
Oklahoma is a participating state in PSYPACT®, an agreement among states that allows a psychologist qualified under it to treat, by telehealth, clients located in any of them. Dr. Lusk holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™) issued under that agreement, and it is what permits her to see you while you are here. The credential belongs to the clinician; there is no separate registration attached to your county, your town, or your mailing address.
Oklahoma is also a member of the Counseling Compact™, and Ms. Braun-Dunagan's privilege to practice counseling here comes through it. The two agreements cover different work: psychological testing belongs to psychology, so evaluations stay with Dr. Lusk.
What matters on the day is your physical position. Drive to Texas for work on a Tuesday and the Tuesday appointment is affected, so let the office know in advance and we will either shift it or explain what is possible. Leaving the state for good raises the same question, and the sooner you mention it the better, because the clinician can then either carry on with you or make a referral. Current participating states are listed at psypact.gov for psychology and at CompactConnect for counseling.
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.
Students and staff at Oklahoma colleges
Oklahoma's campuses are scattered across the whole state rather than clustered in one corner, from the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University to Cameron University, Langston University, and Oklahoma Panhandle State University. Private institutions including the University of Tulsa and Oklahoma City University are represented among our clients too. Working by video lets a student keep one clinician through a semester, a summer at home, and a transfer.
All Oklahoma campuses we have worked with
Public Universities
- University of Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State University
- University of Central Oklahoma
- East Central University
- Northeastern State University
- Northwestern Oklahoma State University
- Southeastern Oklahoma State University
- Southwestern Oklahoma State University
- Cameron University
- Langston University
- Rogers State University
- Oklahoma Panhandle State University
- University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
Private Colleges & Universities
- University of Tulsa
- Oklahoma City University
- Oklahoma Baptist University
- Oral Roberts University
- Southern Nazarene University
- Oklahoma Christian University
- Mid-America Christian University
Oklahoma communities we see online
People connect from Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman, Edmond, Stillwater, Lawton, and Chickasha, and from smaller places with no psychologist within reach at all. Living far from a metropolitan area changes the logistics of therapy; with a private room and a workable signal, it stops preventing it.
Questions Oklahoma clients ask
I live two hours from the nearest psychologist. Does video really work?
For a great many concerns, talking therapy conducted over video is a sound way to work, and for someone who would otherwise never begin, it is the difference that counts. Certain situations genuinely do require an in-person assessment or a local prescriber. Where yours is one of them, the clinician will say so plainly instead of continuing by default.
Do I have to be in Oklahoma during the appointment?
Yes. Your clinician's authorization turns on where you are while the session runs, not on where your mail arrives. Being inside Oklahoma when the hour opens keeps everything properly covered. If you expect to be over a state line that day, mention it when scheduling and the office will look for another date or tell you what else can be done.
Do students and faculty in Oklahoma use the practice?
Regularly. Students reach us when a campus counseling office is booked out, when they want a clinician with no connection to their department, or when they need care that will still be there after graduation. Faculty and staff call for much the same reasons, and because a video appointment can be fitted inside a teaching day without an explanation to anyone.
Do you offer psychological testing?
Dr. Lusk conducts psychological evaluations, among them educational, employment screening, forensic, and neuropsychological assessment. Whether your question actually needs formal testing, and how much of it could be handled remotely for a client in this state, is worked out in consultation before anything is booked. Some evaluations require in-person administration, and where that is true we say it.
What if I need to reach someone between sessions?
Ordinary questions can go to the office at (844) 774-7997 and will reach your clinician between appointments. This practice does not provide crisis, walk-in, or after-hours emergency coverage, so a genuine emergency belongs with the national crisis and emergency lines or your nearest hospital. Part of early treatment is deciding in advance who you would call locally on a bad night.
How to get started in Oklahoma
Getting started means a request in our secure online scheduler with Dr. Lusk or Ms. Braun-Dunagan, for a time you can realistically keep. Staff will send the fee agreement before anything is final and confirm your first appointment.
Prefer to talk first? Call or email the office.
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