About Dana
Dana Simonelli is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She supports people dealing with relationship struggles, low self-esteem, career setbacks, and big life changes. Dana speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps to make daily life feel more manageable.
Her approach begins by listening to each person's story and noticing their existing strengths. She treats clients as the expert on their own life and works alongside them to set clear, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through difficult moments, practicing new ways to respond, and building small habits that add up over time. With three years of professional experience, Dana has worked with adults on issues like motivation, confidence, and social anxiety. She also helps people who want to clarify life purpose, repair communication problems, or practice forgiveness and self-love.
Her work is direct and supportive rather than overly clinical. In sessions she prioritizes clear, doable strategies that fit into a busy schedule. Clients can expect straightforward feedback and simple exercises to try between meetings.
The aim is steady progress, not instant fixes. Dana encourages anyone feeling overwhelmed or stuck to take the first step. She focuses on small, achievable changes that build momentum toward a more balanced life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many of the techniques she uses are evidence-based and focus on practical skills. One common approach helps you recognize and change unhelpful thought patterns so anxiety and stress feel less overwhelming. This method teaches skills for noticing thoughts, testing them, and trying alternative responses to reduce worry and self-criticism.Another approach centers on behavior and gradual exposure to feared situations for social anxiety or phobia. It involves planning small, manageable steps toward challenging situations so confidence grows over time. These steps are paired with skills for managing physical symptoms and building social comfort.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. She reviews progress and adjusts the plan as needed so the work stays practical and meaningful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging makes it easy to share thoughts between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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