About Dana
Dana Boyles uses practical, goal-focused approaches to help people manage parenting stress, relationship strain, ADHD challenges, and big life transitions. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a licensed professional counselor in Texas and brings two decades of experience to her work. Dana speaks plainly and treats each person with respect and warmth.
Her sessions emphasize finding strengths and building small, steady changes. She often shapes conversations around specific goals people name.
Background and approach
That might mean improving routines for someone with attention differences or setting clearer boundaries in family situations. Dana blends solution-focused ideas with family systems thinking so people can see how their patterns affect day-to-day life. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Together these approaches aim to produce practical steps clients can try between sessions. She welcomes conversations about faith when clients want that included, and she notes some education in Biblical perspectives to support those discussions. Dana tries to match pace and priorities to each person, adjusting what they work on based on what feels doable.
Sessions are conversational and action-oriented. Dana often suggests small experiments, new routines, or short tasks to practice outside therapy. Her goal is to help clients build skills that let them feel more capable and in control over time.
Practical approaches for online support
CBT helps people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that get in the way of daily life. It is useful for managing low self-esteem, anger, and habits tied to attention or motivation. Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, achievable goals and on what someone wants to see happen next rather than dwelling on past problems. Internal Family Systems looks at different parts of a person - for example an anxious part or a critical part - and works to help those parts cooperate better.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that fit their goals, values, and pace. That decision is reviewed over time and adjusted based on what helps most.
Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for deeper conversation and visual connection, while phone sessions use less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, quick planning, or when a written format feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work from different locations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Family conflicts
- Relationship issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English