About Dana
Dana Wester is a counsellor with eight years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She supports people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and identity concerns. Dana aims to make taking the first step feel manageable and grounded so people can focus on what matters to them.
She works in an integrative way, blending several therapeutic approaches to suit each person's needs. Sessions tend to centre on the person and their present concerns, while also drawing on structured tools when helpful.
Background and approach
Dana invites clients to speak honestly and to try small, practical steps between meetings. Dana has worked with adults, children and adolescents, and with parents, across a range of issues. She has experience with trauma and abuse, self-harm and suicidal thinking, eating and body-image problems, sexual identity and relationship difficulties.
She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, career questions, and long-term health challenges. Dana holds BACP registration, which is listed as BACP in her credentials. She offers a welcoming, non-judgemental space where people are treated with acceptance and respect.
Her approach combines warmth with practical techniques so conversations can lead to change. People who prefer online contact can connect in different ways, and Dana helps people choose what will work best for them. She works collaboratively to set goals and to review progress as therapy continues.
How Dana uses practical approaches in online therapy
Two notable approaches Dana draws on are person-centred work and cognitive-behavioural techniques. Person-centred work focuses on listening, acceptance and helping someone find their own answers. It is useful when someone needs space to make sense of feelings or identity issues. Cognitive-behavioural techniques look at patterns of thought and behaviour and introduce small, practical strategies to reduce anxiety andmanage mood swings.She also uses creative and experiential methods such as art-based exercises and play elements when they suit a person's needs. These methods give different ways to express difficult feelings and can help with trauma, grief and body-image concerns. Dana treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process and will agree a plan based on each person's goals and preferences.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and a way to reflect between appointments. These options offer flexibility and practical choices for people juggling work, family or different energy levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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