About Dana
Dana DeHart is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) working in Virginia with more than two decades of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Dana emphasizes practical steps and honest conversation to help people move forward.
She works with concerns like parenting strain, relationship problems, grief, and struggles with motivation or self-esteem. Addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, anger, bipolar disorder, and ADHD are also on her list of areas she addresses.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at finding concrete ways to cope and regain control of day-to-day life. Dana favors a client-centered style that treats the person in front of her as the expert on their own life. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new habits.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques are tools she brings in when they fit the situation. People working with Dana can expect straightforward feedback and a supportive tone. She checks messages early in the morning and again in the late afternoon to keep communication clear.
Her approach is practical and down to earth, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her work is guided by the goals each person sets. Sessions often mix talk, skill practice, and small steps people can try between meetings.
Dana helps clients notice strengths, make concrete changes, and track what works as they move toward a more manageable life.
How Dana Uses Practical Therapies Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting the person's own goals. It looks for strengths in a person's story and builds on them to solve current problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, often called EMDR, is used to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and related reactions when that approach seems appropriate.Dana treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She discusses options and tailors methods to the client’s needs, goals, and preferences. Together they decide whether to emphasize talk-based support, skill-building from CBT, EMDR for trauma work, or a mix of techniques to match the concern and pace the client prefers.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text allow shorter check-ins, quick skill coaching, and convenient ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, childcare, or other daily demands while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English