About Dana
Dana Hartshorn is a counsellor who works from an integrative perspective. She holds a BACP credential and has four years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. Dana focuses on meeting people where they are and helping them find practical steps forward.
Dana uses a mix of client-centred approaches, attachment ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs, with clear goals agreed together. She aims to offer empathy, respect and straightforward guidance during sessions.
Background and approach
People often come to Dana with stress, anxiety or low mood. She also supports concerns about relationships, identity, gender, eating difficulties, grief and trauma. Additional areas she works with include body image, self-esteem, workplace issues and coping with life changes.
Dana takes an individualised approach to planning therapy. She listens for patterns in relationships and everyday thinking, then suggests small, practical changes to try between sessions. She also brings an interest in the wider natural environment into conversations when it feels helpful.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Dana encourages people to explore values, notice how thoughts affect behaviour, and build strategies to manage difficult feelings. She describes asking for help as an act of bravery and aims to support people toward a more authentic and fulfilled life.
Approaches and online therapy options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small steps in that direction while learning to sit with difficult feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and motivation struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from past relationships and how they shape current reactions, which can help with relationship concerns and feelings of emptiness. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, examines the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns, often used for anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dana will collaborate with each person to identify goals, then try methods that suit those aims and the individual's style. That process may involve adjusting techniques over time so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat formats support quick check-ins or shorter reflections between meetings. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, family commitments and different routines while keeping the focus on practical steps and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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