Do you accept insurance?

Yes. I accept a wide range of plans, including Aetna, Ambetter, Blue Cross and Blue Shield (including Federal Blue Cross and Anthem), Centene, CHAMPVA, Cigna/Evernorth, Health Advantage, HealthChoice, Lucet, Medicare, MultiPlan/PHCS, New Directions, Optum, QualChoice, and United Healthcare/UMR. For Employee Assistance Program (EAP) sessions, I accept Mutual of Omaha and United/Optum EAP only. I am not able to take other EAPs, including Cigna EAP. If you have Cigna, I can likely still see you through your regular Cigna insurance. If your plan isn't listed here, reach out and I can check, and sliding scale may be available for out-of-network or self-pay clients.

What is Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)?

ART is a short-term, evidence-based therapy developed by an EMDR-trained therapist. It combines eye movements and imagery with elements of CBT, Gestalt therapy, and brief psychodynamic therapy, and it can help process trauma, often in just a few sessions, without requiring you to relive every painful detail.

Who do you work with?

I work with adults from all backgrounds dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions, and more. As a cisgender gay man, I have a particular passion for working with queer and gender-diverse clients, veterans, and older adults, but my practice is open to anyone looking for a trauma-informed, non-judgmental space. All identities and backgrounds are welcome here.

What states do you serve?

I offer telehealth therapy across Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. All sessions are virtual, so you can meet with me from home, your car, or anywhere private with a connection.

Do you offer a free consultation?

Yes. I offer a free 15-minute consultation so we can figure out if we are a good fit before getting started.

What is your approach to nontraditional relationships and lifestyles?

I take a sex-positive, non-judgmental approach to all clients, including those who are kink-identified, polyamorous, or otherwise practicing nontraditional relationship structures. Consensual lifestyle choices that are not causing harm are not mine to question.

Do you work with veterans?

Yes. I am a Certified STAR Provider, trained specifically to support military personnel and veterans, in addition to my general adult caseload.

How do I get started?

Reach out by phone, email, or the contact form on this site. Let me know briefly why you are seeking therapy, your availability, and your insurance plan if applicable, and I will follow up to schedule.

Trauma Therapy for Gay Men in Oklahoma

Oklahoma has two metros where finding an affirming therapist is realistic, and then it has everywhere else. If you live outside Oklahoma City or Tulsa, the nearest gay-affirming provider can be a ninety minute drive, assuming there is one at all. I am Devon Davasher, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a gay man, and I work with gay and queer men across Oklahoma by telehealth. Sessions happen wherever you have privacy and a connection, so there is no waiting room, no commute, and no running into someone you know. Most of my work is trauma therapy using Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), which can help you process trauma and lighten its effects, often in just a few sessions, without having to relive every painful detail. I also offer telehealth therapy in Arkansas and Missouri.

What gay men bring to therapy

The reasons vary and all of them belong here. Anxiety and depression, including the low-grade exhaustion of minority stress. Trauma, whether that was one event or years of them. The fallout of coming out, or the ongoing weight of not being out. Relationships in every configuration, including dating, monogamy, open relationships, and polyamory. Grief. Shame that has outlasted the circumstances that created it. Substance use, including harm reduction rather than abstinence when that fits better. Sex and intimacy. Questions about identity that show up at forty or sixty, not only at twenty. You will not have to justify any of it, and you will not have to teach me the basics first.

How Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) works

Therapy only works as well as the safety of the room, and for gay men that safety is not a given. You may have sat with a provider who treated your identity as the thing to solve, or one who meant well but was clearly out of their depth, or spent half a session doing unpaid teaching about your own life. That is exhausting, and it is not therapy.

When your therapist is also a gay man, the context is already there. I am a cisgender gay man with 13 years of clinical experience, credentialed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Case Manager, and Certified Financial Social Worker. I have my own history with anxiety, depression, and unhealthy coping, and I know what it is like to have nowhere to say that out loud.

ART was developed by an EMDR-trained therapist and uses guided eye movements to change how a distressing memory is stored. For many people that means relief without narrating the worst thing that ever happened to them, which is often the reason they put trauma work off in the first place. I work from a trauma-informed lens, I am direct when directness helps, and I use humor when it fits.

Online therapy across Oklahoma, and support for veterans

Because I am licensed statewide, it makes no difference whether you are in Lawton, Enid, Muskogee, Bartlesville, Ponca City, Ardmore, Broken Arrow, or the middle of Tulsa. If you are physically in Oklahoma during our session, we can work together, and your address stops limiting your options.

Privacy is part of the appeal. You choose where you take the session, which for some men is a living room and for others is a parked car on a lunch break. Nobody watches you walk into a building.

Oklahoma also carries a significant military presence, from Fort Sill in Lawton to Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City, along with Altus and Vance in Enid. I am a certified STAR Behavioral Health Provider, trained specifically to work with service members, veterans, and their families.

I accept Ambetter, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Medicare, UnitedHealthcare/UMR, and QualChoice among others, and a sliding scale may be available.

Starting therapy in Oklahoma

Starting therapy does not have to be complicated.

Step 1: Ask for a free consultation. Call, email, or use the contact form to set up a free 15-minute conversation. If I do not have an opening right now, you can join my waitlist instead and I will reach out when one comes up.

Step 2: Tell me briefly what is going on. A short overview is plenty: what brings you in, when you are generally free, and whether you plan to use insurance.

Step 3: We decide together whether it fits. We will talk through scheduling, payment, and whether my approach is right for you. If it is not, I will point you somewhere better.

Step 4: Start from wherever you are in Oklahoma, as long as you have privacy and a steady connection.

Devon Davasher, LCSW is a gay male therapist providing LGBTQIA+ affirming telehealth therapy, including trauma-focused ART, to adults across Oklahoma.