About Dayna
Dayna Hunt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 27 years of experience. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship concerns, and life changes. Dayna uses practical strategies to help people manage emotions and rebuild daily routines.
She trained in counseling psychology and began practicing soon after finishing her Master of Science degree. Over nearly three decades she has worked in independent practice, schools, family service agencies, and corporate settings.
Background and approach
That range gives her many ways to approach common problems. Dayna draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to build emotion regulation, mindfulness, and distress tolerance.
Her client-centered stance means she begins by listening and tailoring work to each person's needs. In sessions she focuses on clear, achievable steps. That may include skill-building for relationships, setting boundaries, managing parenting stress, or coping with grief.
She also supports people facing addiction, trauma, postpartum mood changes, and mood disorders. Dayna values practical problem solving and steady progress. She encourages people to try different strategies and notice small shifts.
Her goal is to help clients feel more in control and better able to handle life’s demands.
Approaches you can use online
Dayna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT sessions often involve setting small goals, trying new habits between sessions, and tracking how thoughts affect mood and actions.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness. These skills are useful for managing intense emotions, reducing conflict, and improving day-to-day coping.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and preferences, explain options, and try methods that fit the person's needs. Clients and therapist adjust plans together as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work on these approaches. Video calls let people work face-to-face when phone or text won't do. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and practice new skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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