About Dana
Dana Joy is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York with eight years of experience. He helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and the fallout from trauma. He aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can take the first steps toward change.
He draws on his background as an addictions counselor to look at how substance use connects with mood, trauma, and life stressors.
Background and approach
He helps people build awareness of patterns that keep them stuck. Conversations are practical and goal-focused, with attention to each person’s values and faith when that matters to them. Sessions usually involve talking through recent struggles and tracing where they come from.
He supports work on coping skills for sleep, anger, and anxiety. He also helps with relationship strain, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, career doubts, and self-esteem issues. Dana adjusts the plan to the person in front of him rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach.
He believes insight matters, but so do small, repeated changes that add up over time. He encourages clients to notice progress between sessions and to try concrete strategies in everyday life. He is used to guiding people through grief, bipolar and ADHD-related concerns, and life transitions.
If someone is ready to begin, he asks a few questions to match goals and then sets a practical schedule for sessions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Evidence-based techniques are used in session to address anxiety, addiction, and trauma. One common approach focuses on increasing self-awareness by helping clients track thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to see what keeps a problem going. This method helps people spot triggers for anxiety or substance use and identify small changes to try.Another frequently used way of working centers on practical coping skills. This includes sleep routines, breathing and grounding practices for anxiety, and stepwise plans for reducing substance use. These tactics aim to be simple to use between sessions and fit into a person's daily life.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative step. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, life context, and preferences, and then try methods that fit those needs. They check in regularly and adjust the plan if something isn’t helping.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or helpful when video is not possible. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick updates, coping check-ins, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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