About Dana
Dana Phillips is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who centers her practice on building a respectful, trusting connection. She values honest conversation and meets people with a calm, nonjudgmental presence. Her approach aims to make it easier to talk about hard things and to find clearer ways forward.
Dana draws on ten years of experience in counseling work across schools, independent practice, and community settings. She uses straightforward methods that help with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family difficulties.
Background and approach
She also addresses grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating concerns, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and ADHD-related challenges. In sessions she blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are used when they fit a person’s goals.
The focus is on practical skills and small changes that add up over time. Dana has also worked with issues tied to adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment, blended family dynamics, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and divorce or separation. She helps people sort family of origin issues and negotiate commitment or control struggles.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She helps people set realistic goals and practices skills between meetings. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and increase confidence in handling life’s changes.
To begin, people choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on availability. Sessions are offered in English and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How Dana’s approaches work online
Client-centered therapy begins with listening closely to what matters most to the person. Sessions focus on building trust, clarifying goals, and using the client’s own strengths to guide change. This approach is useful for relationship concerns, family conflict, and emotional overwhelm.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches specific skills to shift them. It is practical for anxiety, depression, stress, eating issues, and many everyday challenges. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication during heated moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dana will help clients choose or blend methods based on their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Decisions about technique are collaborative and adjusted over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people see facial cues and have longer, deeper conversations. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a check-in fits a tight break. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for short updates, skill practice, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while using the approaches that best match each person’s needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English