About Dana
Dana Steiner is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 26 years of experience in Illinois. She focuses on relationships, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Dana works with individuals and couples to address everyday struggles and deeper emotional concerns.
Dana aims for direct, honest sessions. She offers clear feedback and asks clients to share how the work is going. That back-and-forth helps her tailor a plan to fit what each person needs.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and compassionate while staying practical. She uses mindfulness skills to help people notice and manage strong emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are part of her toolbox for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dana also uses approaches that support relationship repair and better communication. Dana trained in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis and completed graduate work in Chicago at Argosy University.
She holds an Illinois LCPC credential and has worked in counseling for over two decades. Her background includes work with people facing chronic or terminal illness, addiction, eating and body image struggles, trauma, and caregiver stress. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings.
Dana pays attention to patterns in relationships, eating and mood connections, and stress responses. She works to help people build clearer communication and healthier habits. People who prefer a collaborative therapist often do well with Dana.
She invites feedback, adjusts plans when needed, and supports clients through change. Her goal is to help people find steadier ways to cope and move forward.
Approaches that guide online care and connection
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on treating people with respect and empathy. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and supports clients as they identify their own goals and solutions. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, understanding presence while sorting through feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and for breaking patterns that keep problems stuck.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. It can be useful when stress, anger, or impulsive reactions make daily life harder.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. Together they select or blend methods that fit the client’s situation and adapt the plan as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face time for deep conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for ongoing support between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Dana work with?
How would you describe Dana's therapy style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she located?
Can I work with her in another language or from another country?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin therapy with Dana?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.