About Danna
Danna Russell is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and low self-esteem. She practices in Utah and focuses on clear, practical steps people can use right away. Her style is direct and compassionate.
She aims to make therapy feel manageable for someone juggling daily demands. She often helps people understand how everyday habits and thoughts keep problems going. Sessions use straightforward tools to change unhelpful thinking and to build better coping skills.
Background and approach
For those carrying heavy loss or trauma, she brings approaches that support processing painful memories. Danna pays attention to the strain of caregiving, compassion fatigue, and workplace stress. She also works with people dealing with ADHD-related challenges, impulsivity, codependency, and communication problems.
She helps clients sort through guilt, shame, and questions about life purpose. Her work mixes practical exercises with deeper internal work to shift patterns that feel stuck. She encourages small experiments people can try between sessions to see what helps most.
The goal is steady, realistic progress rather than sudden fixes. Danna speaks English and offers sessions in formats that fit busy lives. She partners with each person to set clear goals and to track changes over time.
How her approaches translate to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It offers concrete strategies for managing anxiety, stress, and mood changes through short exercises and practice between sessions.EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people process distressing memories that keep causing current symptoms. It is often used when past events are linked to ongoing anxiety, grief, or strong emotional reactions.
Internal Family Systems looks at the different parts inside a person - the worried parts, the critical parts, and the part that wants to protect. Working with these parts can reduce self-criticism and build more self-compassion around issues like shame or codependency.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try methods that match those needs. Adjustments are made over time based on what works best.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video is useful for in-depth work and visual connection, phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins or shorter conversations between sessions. These options give flexibility while keeping treatment focused on concrete steps and measurable progress.
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- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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