About Dana
Dana Thomart is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on practical help for people dealing with anxiety and stress. She offers calm, direct support for parenting concerns, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. Dana uses straightforward approaches to help people find relief and clearer next steps.
With 19 years of experience in California, Dana brings steady clinical practice and a long history of helping clients manage mood struggles and social anxiety.
Background and approach
She listens without judgment and works to make sessions feel safe and approachable. Conversations concentrate on what matters to the person in front of her and on skills that can be used right away. Dana draws on Client-Centered Therapy to build trust and prioritize each person's goals.
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to manage strong emotions and improve coping. These methods are explained in plain language and tailored to fit real life challenges. In sessions she helps people practice communication, set boundaries, and reduce overwhelming worry.
Parenting topics are handled with practical strategies rather than lectures. Caregiver stress, loneliness, and questions of purpose are addressed with step-by-step problem solving. Starting therapy begins with a short intake and a clear plan for next steps.
Dana encourages small experiments between sessions so progress is steady and measurable. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Approaches That Guide Online Sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and meeting them where they are. It emphasizes empathy and listening so people feel heard while they explore what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. In online sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new ways of responding to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, known as DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Practical exercises include mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation tools that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Decisions about which techniques to use are collaborative and may shift as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for in-depth conversations, phone can be better when bandwidth is limited, and text options support brief check-ins or skill practice between appointments. These options give flexibility so therapy can happen in ways that suit daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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