About Dana
Dr. Dana Matthews is an Ohio licensed professional counselor with 19 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on depression, grief, career challenges, and the strain of big life changes.
Her style is respectful and straightforward, aimed at making the first step feel more possible for a worried parent or busy adult. She uses a mix of talk-centered ways to help people untangle problems and find what works.
Background and approach
Conversations are shaped to each person’s needs rather than following a fixed script. That can mean looking at unhelpful thought patterns, naming values and meaning, or trying short practical steps between sessions. In sessions she listens carefully and asks questions that clarify what matters most to the client.
For someone struggling with loss or persistent anxiety, sessions often combine tracking thoughts and testing new behaviors with time to reflect on meaning and identity. Career concerns are approached with problem-solving and goal-setting so choices feel more manageable. When life changes feel overwhelming, she helps break them into smaller, usable steps.
Her approach aims to make progress feel real and doable. People who work with her can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth process. Plans are adjusted as needs shift, and the focus stays on practical change alongside understanding emotions.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what the client says matters most. The therapist creates space for the client to set goals and guide the conversation, which helps when stress or life changes make priorities unclear.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. It uses short, practical exercises and simple experiments to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms and to test new ways of coping between sessions.
Existential therapy helps people facing major life transitions or grief by examining values, purpose, and personal meaning. It can be useful when someone wants to reorient after loss or when a career change prompts deeper questions about direction.
Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk about different methods and try options that match a person’s goals and comfort level. Plans are adjusted as progress is seen and priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter environment is easier. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or have shorter, more frequent contact to practice skills and track mood. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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