About Dana
Dana Hall helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship or intimacy struggles, and issues with addiction. She also supports those facing parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, workplace stress, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and questions about life purpose.
Dana works with clients who are navigating complex losses, family origin problems, medical or chronic illness, and fertility or separation challenges. Dana brings 20 years of experience in education and mental health to her practice.
Background and approach
She holds an IL LCPC, which is the credential listed with her name. Before independent practice she worked in top therapeutic programs, served as a crisis management specialist, consulted professionally, taught, and supervised other clinicians. Her style is warm, direct, and nonjudgmental.
Sessions focus on practical strategies and real-life skills. She blends empathy with straightforward coaching so people can make steady changes between appointments. In therapy she uses approaches that emphasize values, present-moment awareness, and learning new ways to manage thoughts and emotions.
Clients can expect help with coping skills, emotional regulation, and improving how they communicate and connect with others. Dana has worked extensively with trauma and has developed DBT-informed programming to teach mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. She follows standards of care for transgender and gender diverse people and welcomes LGBTQ clients.
Her goal is to help people feel understood and build lives they value.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It teaches ways to act despite difficult thoughts or feelings and can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes.Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's own goals and pacing. The therapist offers empathy, active listening, and reflection to support people as they make sense of their experience and decide what changes to try.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to test unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills for worry, low mood, and stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dana will listen to a person's history, goals, and daily demands, then suggest strategies to try. Decisions about methods and pace are collaborative and adjusted as therapy proceeds.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and for people who live far from therapists. Video calls let therapists observe facial cues and body language, while phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions and keep momentum when a quick message will do. These formats let clients choose what fits their routine and comfort while working on the same skills and goals they would in person.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English