About Dana
Dana O'Neill is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She works with adults who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure about their next steps. Dana aims to help people build self-worth and get back to activities that bring energy and meaning.
Dana uses straightforward techniques to help people feel better in daily life. She draws on client-centered care to listen and shape sessions around each person's goals.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are part of her work to help people regulate intense emotions and improve how they relate to others. Mindfulness practice is woven in to increase present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find the motivation to make lasting changes. With nine years working across community, residential, and independent practice settings, Dana brings practical experience supporting people through life changes, identity concerns, and relationship strain. She also works with substance use, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and work-related problems.
She holds Nevada LCPC and Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credentials. Sessions are offered in English and tailored to each person's circumstances. Dana aims to help people take concrete steps toward self-care, better coping, and clearer goals.
To begin, Dana guides people through small, achievable steps that rebuild confidence and reduce avoidance. Her style is direct, compassionate, and focused on what works day to day.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's goals and priorities, with the therapist listening closely and adapting sessions to what matters most. This approach helps when someone wants a space to clarify values, rebuild self-worth, and set personal goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches people to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to test what works better. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and habit change because it lays out clear steps and exercises to practice between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. These skills are helpful for emotion regulation, conflict at work or home, and reducing reactive behavior.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust strategies over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions work well for in-depth discussion and skills practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow for shorter check-ins, real-time support between sessions, and written summaries of key ideas. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Florida, Nevada, California
- Languages
- English
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