About Dana
Dana Phillips is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey who centers her work on building a strong therapeutic connection. She focuses on anxiety, stress, relationship strain, depression, grief, and many life changes that make daily functioning harder. Her style is warm and straightforward so people can say what matters most without feeling judged.
With ten years of experience in counseling, Dana draws on practical methods that match each person's needs.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered listening alongside problem-focused tools to help people notice patterns and try small changes. Sessions often include skills for managing strong feelings, improving communication, and coping with setbacks. Dana's background includes graduate work in counseling and substantial time supporting people affected by substance use, school-related concerns, and family stress.
She has worked in both school and independent practice settings and has experience with a wide range of concerns such as trauma, eating issues, ADHD, and parenting strain. This experience informs her steady, calm approach. In sessions Dana pairs active listening with straightforward strategies like cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness exercises.
She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas and motivational interviewing to help people move through resistance and stay motivated. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's comfort. People who choose Dana can expect practical tools, honest conversation, and a focus on daily improvements.
She helps people set clear, achievable goals and checks in on progress as therapy continues.
Practical approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust so people feel heard and can speak openly about anxiety, relationships, grief, or life changes. It helps people set the pace of the work and choose goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches straightforward skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with stressful changes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for managing strong feelings and reducing impulsive reactions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Dana treats the choice of methods as a conversation - she listens to concerns, discusses options, and adapts techniques to a client's goals and comfort level. Clients help shape the plan and try methods at a manageable pace.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone calls can be easier when video is not practical. Live chat or text-based messaging supports short check-ins, written reflections, or quick skills practice between sessions. These formats help therapy fit around work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping focus on clear goals and practical skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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