About Dana
Dana McKennon helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and attention concerns. She is Dana McKennon, LCPC, and has 21 years of professional experience in Illinois. Her opening message is simple: taking the first step takes courage, and reaching out matters.
In sessions she aims to build a nonjudgmental space where people can talk about upsetting thoughts and memories. She listens, asks clear questions, and helps clients notice patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and focused on what matters in day-to-day routines. Common concerns she supports include panic and phobias, obsessive-compulsive habits, body image struggles, and stress linked to first responder roles. She also helps people who are dealing with post-traumatic stress and social anxiety.
Parenting strain and problems with concentration or memory are part of her practice too. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She works with each person to set achievable goals and track small changes over time.
Sessions can include problem-solving, developing new coping skills, and practicing ways to respond differently to difficult thoughts or urges. Dana brings two decades of clinical work to the room. That experience shapes how she tailors strategies for each person.
If someone wants a clear, practical approach to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning, she offers steady guidance and real-world tools.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. One common approach emphasizes exposure and response work to reduce panic, phobias, and compulsive behaviors by gradually facing feared situations and learning new responses. Another approach centers on processing traumatic memories and teaching grounding or emotion-regulation skills to reduce post-traumatic stress and strong emotional reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques that fit the person’s needs, and adjust methods based on what helps. This collaborative process aims to find practical tools that suit daily life and individual preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone can be easier when a session needs less bandwidth, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates and planning between sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and make it easier to keep consistent progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English