About Dana
Dana Lapsley is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She supports clients struggling with relationship concerns, family tension, self-esteem, and major life changes. Dana writes short, practical plans and talks through steps people can try between sessions.
Dana uses straightforward conversation to identify what is most pressing. She listens carefully and helps people break worries into manageable tasks. Sessions focus on small changes that can ease daily pressure and improve how a person relates to others.
Background and approach
Over four years of practice in California shaped Dana's approach. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to the situation in front of her. That means the work can look different for someone dealing with anxiety compared with someone sorting out family conflict.
Special topics she often addresses include adoption and foster care questions, body image and codependency patterns, and obsessive or compulsive thoughts and behaviors. She also supports people facing control issues, emptiness, guilt and shame, or trouble committing to decisions. Dana aims to make sessions practical and relatable.
She helps people set realistic goals and practice new ways of coping. The plan is collaborative so it changes as progress is made. Sessions are offered in English and conducted remotely.
Communication options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How Dana Uses Evidence-Based Techniques Online
Evidence-based techniques focus on clear steps people can try to reduce symptoms and improve daily function. One common approach is problem-focused work that looks at current stressors, identifies patterns, and builds small behavioral changes to lower anxiety and improve mood. This helps with everyday worries, relationship strain, and life transitions.Another approach emphasizes skills practice for managing strong emotions and improving communication. Sessions teach short exercises and role-play to try new ways of speaking and setting boundaries, which can help with codependency, jealousy, and control issues.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, then suggest techniques to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps you most, so the work evolves as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for scheduling and consistency. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free option is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and flexible touchpoints between full sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the work focused on real change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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