About Dana
Dana Spitz is an LCSW practicing in New Jersey with 22 years of experience. She takes a client-centered approach and helps people address stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship challenges. Dana focuses on practical steps people can use in daily life to feel steadier and more in control.
She listens first to understand what matters most to each person. Together they set clear goals and create a plan that fits the client’s situation.
Background and approach
Dana blends cognitive behavioral techniques with solution-focused strategies to target unhelpful thoughts and build useful habits. Sessions also draw on emotionally focused and trauma-aware methods when needed. That mix supports processing painful memories, improving communication patterns, and repairing attachment wounds.
Dana pays attention to how family history, adoption or foster care issues, and caregiving roles shape current struggles. Clients commonly bring concerns such as parenting stress, compassion fatigue, anger, low self-esteem, career transitions, and isolation. She also addresses specific issues like abandonment, codependency, control struggles, and forgiveness work.
Her style is steady, compassionate, and practical. Dana aims to help people develop skills they can use after sessions end. She partners with each person to identify barriers and try concrete steps to move forward.
The focus is on problem solving, emotional understanding, and gradual healing.
Therapy Approaches and How They Translate Online
Client-centered therapy begins by focusing on your experience and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment and helps you clarify goals so sessions follow what matters most. This approach supports issues like anxiety, depression, family conflict, and parenting stress by keeping work practical and relevant.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and to build small behavior changes. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, anger, and coping with life changes because it teaches tools you can practice between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name feelings and change interaction patterns that lead to distress. It can be helpful when relationship dynamics, attachment wounds, or family of origin issues are involved because it brings emotional patterns into view and works on new ways of responding.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on goals, needs, and personal preference. That decision can shift over time as progress is made and priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you see facial cues and do deeper exercises. Phone sessions can fit a short break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style work, or when written reflection feels helpful. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy days and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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