About Dana
Dana Hall is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and ADHD. She offers steady, nonjudgmental support for relationship struggles, grief, addiction concerns, and questions about identity and intimacy. Her tone is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people regain day-to-day functioning and hope.
Dana draws on two decades of clinical and educational work. She has served in crisis management, supervised other clinicians, and worked in therapeutic treatment settings before moving into independent practice.
Background and approach
Her style is empathetic and transparent, focused on practical skills people can use between sessions. In sessions she blends client-centered listening with structured skills practice. That means she starts by hearing each person's story, then introduces tools like mindful awareness, emotional regulation, and behavior-focused exercises.
She emphasizes manageable steps that reduce overwhelm and build stability. Dana also attends to trauma and relational patterns. She integrates approaches that address painful memories alongside present-day coping strategies.
The goal is to reduce symptoms and help people make clearer choices about relationships, work, and daily routines. People who choose her often want a therapist who will listen without judgment and offer clear, usable strategies. She partners with clients to set realistic goals and track progress.
Her approach is practical, compassionate, and aimed at long-term change.
How Dana’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, life transitions, and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to identify unhelpful thought patterns and change behaviors that keep problems going, which helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotional responses in relationships and improving emotional connection and communication.Dana treats choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She will listen to your goals and try different methods to see what fits. Together you decide which strategies to keep, modify, or set aside based on how they work for you.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes scheduling flexible. Video sessions support face-to-face interaction and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone appointments can work when video isn’t possible or bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, and skill reminders between longer sessions.
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What this therapist 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
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