About Dana
Dana McKennon is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois with 21 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting strains, or challenges with concentration and focus including ADHD. Dana aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful.
Dana keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She creates a calm space where people can talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients build coping skills and better daily routines. Her work often focuses on managing worry, panic, obsessive thoughts, and responses to past trauma. She also addresses body image concerns, trichotillomania, and issues common to first responders.
Sessions can explore strategies for better attention, memory, and organization when focus is a problem. Dana adapts the pace to each person. Some sessions concentrate on short-term skills for immediate relief.
Others dig into patterns that have built up over years. The aim is to leave each person with practical steps they can try between appointments. She offers a mix of formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
People in Illinois who prefer to communicate in English will find those options available as part of her practice.
Evidence-based techniques and online care that fit your life
Many clients benefit from approaches that teach clear skills for managing symptoms. Cognitive approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and replacing them with more balanced thoughts to reduce worry and avoidance. These techniques can help with anxiety, panic, social fears, and obsessive thoughts.Behavioral strategies target actions and routines. This includes activity planning, exposure steps for phobias or panic, and habit-shaping methods useful for attention, focus, and trichotillomania. These strategies aim to change what you do day to day so feelings follow more balanced patterns.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, what has helped before, and personal preferences before recommending strategies. Clients and the therapist adjust the plan as progress is made and needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easy to check in between sessions or use brief coaching when time is tight. These options help people keep therapy consistent around busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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