About Dana
Dana Peterson is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of professional experience. She practices in Georgia and offers straightforward, compassionate care for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Dana focuses on practical steps that can make day-to-day life feel more manageable.
She helps people work through relationship strain and family problems with clear conversations and doable strategies. Eating and body image concerns are addressed in a calm, nonjudgmental way.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with depression and related struggles such as emptiness or co-occurring substance issues. Dana approaches sessions by treating each person as the expert on their own life. She listens for strengths and builds on them, helping clients set small, realistic goals.
The work often involves learning new ways to communicate, manage control issues, and cope with strong feelings. Her background includes practice in both Georgia and Kentucky, and she brings a decade of frontline social work to her counseling. That experience includes supporting people affected by adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, divorce, and domestic violence.
Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client’s timing and needs.
Evidence-informed approaches and online care
Dana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach she uses emphasizes identifying patterns that keep anxiety and stress active, then practicing new responses to those patterns to reduce their daily impact. Another method concentrates on improving communication and connection in relationships, teaching clear ways to express needs and set boundaries so conflicts feel more solvable.Choosing the best approach is a shared process. Dana listens to each person’s history, goals, and preferences, and together they decide which techniques to try first. Adjustments are made as needed so the plan stays relevant and helpful over time.
Online therapy with Dana offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow longer, face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth; live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins and ongoing support between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the focus on progress and practical coping skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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