About Dana
Dana Brouca is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New Jersey with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with life changes, and navigate relationship and mood concerns. Dana prefers straightforward conversations and practical steps that fit into everyday life.
Her approach is collaborative and people-centered. She starts by listening to each person’s priorities and strengths, then shapes the work around realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include problem-solving, skill practice, and short-term strategies to reduce immediate distress. Dana commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping habits. She also draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions grounded in each person’s values and choices.
Mindfulness practices are offered to improve focus and manage physical symptoms of anxiety. Over a decade, Dana has supported people facing grief, trauma and abuse, caregiver stress, and work-related compassion fatigue. She also helps with issues like anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and challenges tied to aging or chronic illness.
Her experience spans a range of life stages and stressors. Sessions are practical and paced to the person. Dana aims to make steps feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
She emphasizes collaboration, so people leave with clear next steps they can try between meetings.
How Dana’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s goals and strengths. In sessions she listens first, then helps shape goals and action steps that matter to the individual. This approach fits many issues, from relationship concerns to burnout.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. Dana uses CBT to help people notice unhelpful thinking and practice different responses to reduce anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stress.
Finding the right blend of methods is part of the process. Dana will discuss what feels most useful, try approaches together, and adjust based on the person’s needs, goals, and preferences. The work is collaborative and paced to what someone can manage between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging can support short check-ins, homework, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Money and financial issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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