About Dana
Dana Steiner is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with 26 years of experience. She focuses on individual and couples counseling and helps people facing relationship struggles, grief, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Dana takes a direct and collaborative approach in sessions.
She offers clear feedback when helpful and asks for feedback in return so the plan fits each person's needs. Her manner is supportive and compassionate while remaining practical and goal-oriented.
Background and approach
She works with concerns that include intimacy issues, parenting challenges, addictions, stress, self-esteem, career questions, and coping with chronic illness. She also helps with eating and sleeping problems, body image, and concerns common to first responders and caregivers. Dana trained in psychology at Washington University in St.
Louis and completed graduate work in Chicago at Argosy University. She earned full licensure to practice independently in Illinois and has continued learning throughout her career. In couples work she draws on the Gottman Method to address communication and trust.
For individuals she often uses client-centered skills, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and dialectical behavior ideas to help people manage thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Her goal is to help people build practical skills they can use between sessions. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk honestly and try new ways of handling problems.
Dana encourages small, doable steps so progress feels realistic and manageable.
How Dana's Methods Translate to Online Therapy
Dana combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and elements of the Gottman Method to address relationship and life challenges. Client-centered work focuses on listening and building a trusting connection so people feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy offers practical tools to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. The Gottman Method provides concrete skills for couples around communication, managing conflict, and rebuilding trust.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Dana will discuss goals, try different strategies, and adjust methods based on what a person says is helpful. Therapy often blends approaches so techniques fit a person's situation, priorities, and comfort level rather than following a single rigid plan.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well when visual cues and in-the-moment practice are important. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick reflections, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and different life rhythms.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English