About Dana
Dana DeHart is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 21 years of clinical work. She focuses on practical, everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, and motivation. Dana speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel easier for someone who is worried or unsure.
Dana believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths into therapy. She uses those strengths to help people tackle problems such as trauma, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship or family worries.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to feel down-to-earth and supportive rather than clinical or distant. Her style is warm and genuine. She listens first and helps people find small, manageable steps forward.
That can mean working on how someone thinks about a problem, building motivation, or using techniques aimed at reducing distress after trauma. Dana has worked with people facing grief, addiction, anger, career transitions, and issues with intimacy and parenting. She also supports those managing sleep or eating struggles, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Her experience includes helping people cope with life changes and rebuild confidence. Messages to Dana are checked early in the morning and again in the late afternoon, so communication follows a predictable rhythm. She encourages starting with a short matching questionnaire to connect the person to the right schedule and session type.
How Dana’s Approaches Work Online
Dana uses client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people understand and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Client-centered work focuses on listening and building on the person’s own strengths and goals, while CBT breaks problems into small, manageable steps to try between sessions.She also uses EMDR for clients dealing with traumatic memories when that approach fits the situation. EMDR involves gentle guided attention paired with focused recall to reduce the distress linked to difficult memories and to help people feel more grounded afterward.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Dana will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier around work and family demands. Video lets people use visual cues and face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between scheduled sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same therapeutic approaches as in person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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