About Dara
Dara Damico is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience in New York. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and trauma. Her work is grounded in respect for each person's story and the strengths they already have.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what matters most. Sessions aim to identify patterns that cause distress and to build simple, practical skills for coping day to day.
Background and approach
Dara uses clear, direct strategies and listens for what a person needs in the moment. Her background includes many years supporting people facing relationship pain, identity concerns, and mood challenges. She draws on a mix of approaches to match the pace and goals of each person.
That can mean teaching concrete breathing and mindfulness tools or working on thoughts and behaviors that keep someone stuck. Dara often helps with sleep and eating struggles, parenting stress, work-related burnout, and issues tied to abandonment or attachment. She also supports people dealing with compulsions, panic, and the emotional impact of past abuse.
Her experience includes treating substance and alcohol problems alongside mood disorders. People who choose Dara can expect a collaborative process. She helps set clear, achievable steps and checks in on progress.
The goal is more ease in daily life and stronger ways to handle hard moments.
Approach and online therapy options
Dara commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside client-centered work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that fuel anxiety and depression, and it often includes practical homework and skill-building. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with intense mood swings, panic, and compulsive urges. Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience and values active listening to guide whatever approach fits best.Picking the right approach is a collaborative process. Dara reviews goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods over time. She checks in about what is helping and what needs to change so treatment stays useful and relevant to daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief support, scheduling, and tracking progress between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for different schedules and needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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