About Dana
Dana Secord is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She welcomes conversations about depression, trauma, relationship strain, sexual and gender identity concerns, and the grip of racing thoughts. Dana speaks plainly and makes space for honest feelings without judgment.
She aims to help people who feel stuck find clearer ways forward. Dana uses an integrative style that draws on practical tools and open, respectful listening.
Background and approach
She encourages clients to name what matters to them and to try strategies that fit daily life. Sessions often involve learning new ways to respond to strong emotions and practicing skills between meetings. She has six years of experience and holds a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Texas Wesleyan University.
Her background includes work in independent practice and community health settings where she supported people dealing with abuse, post-traumatic stress, substance use concerns, mood disorders, and eating issues. In therapy she treats each person as the expert on their life and builds plans together. That can mean trying cognitive-behavioral techniques, exploring attachment patterns, or focusing on values-based action.
Dana focuses on small, steady changes that add up over time. Sessions are delivered with respect for each person’s identity and pace. She offers a calm style and straightforward guidance for people trying to recover from loss, cope with life changes, or rebuild confidence.
Approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take small steps toward a life that matters to them. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing practical techniques to change them. It often includes short exercises to do between sessions for issues like anxiety, sleep problems, or low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, values, and daily life. That might mean trying one method first and adjusting over time based on what helps.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow for a more traditional face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging is useful for brief reflections or ongoing support between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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