About Dayna
Dayna Sickau is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who focuses on anxiety and stress. She offers straightforward, compassionate support to adults who feel stuck by worry, panic, traumatic memories, or major life changes. Dayna speaks English and frames work in plain terms so people can take small steps forward.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with panic attacks, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding how symptoms show up day to day, building coping skills, and practicing new ways to respond to difficult thoughts and feelings. The goal is more calm and clearer choices, not quick fixes. Dayna has three years of clinical experience as an LMHC in New York.
She combines listening with practical tools so people can try out changes between sessions. That may mean learning breathing and grounding strategies, testing different thoughts, or working through stuck patterns in relationships. Her approach is collaborative.
She helps people set goals and adjusts the work as needs change. People can expect direct guidance alongside space to reflect and try new behaviors. For someone dealing with guilt, isolation, caregiver stress, or drifting from a sense of purpose, Dayna offers steady, methodical support.
She helps people rebuild confidence and better manage stress so they can move toward what matters to them.
How practical therapies work online
Dayna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions toward clear, usable tools. Cognitive approaches help people identify and test unhelpful thoughts and learn different ways to respond to anxiety and panic. Trauma-focused methods address painful memories and reactions, teaching grounding and processing strategies to reduce their day-to-day impact.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Dayna works with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, symptoms, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can handle.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging let people send updates, get brief support, and work through tools between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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