About Dana
Dana O'Neill is a licensed counselor and therapist who focuses on practical skills that make everyday life feel more manageable. She uses straightforward talk and practical exercises to help people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from themselves. Her style aims to rebuild motivation, self-worth, and clearer priorities so daily life becomes easier to navigate.
Dana draws on nine years of clinical experience across community, residential, and independent practice settings.
Background and approach
She combines client-centered work with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and manage strong emotions. She also uses mindfulness to help clients notice bodily signals and respond differently to stress. Many clients come because of anxiety, stress, relationship strain, low self-esteem, or trouble with motivation and life purpose.
Dana also works with concerns such as ADHD, addiction, grief, identity questions, and eating- or body-image issues. She frames problems in everyday terms and focuses on concrete steps people can try between sessions. Sessions include practical skill-building, emotion regulation practice, and conversations that connect values to actions.
Dana pays attention to how the body and mind interact, helping clients use breathing, grounding, and mindful awareness alongside cognitive strategies. Over time the aim is to reduce reactivity and increase choices in everyday situations. Dana holds licenses as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and is based in Florida.
She works in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for people who prefer online formats.
Using CBT, DBT, and Mindfulness in Online Care
Client-centered work means conversations focus on what matters to the client and builds on the client's own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and behavior and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills that help when feelings are intense.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively to try different techniques and tailor sessions to each person's needs, goals, and comfort level. Clients can expect regular check-ins about what is helping and what to adjust.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls are good for deeper conversations and skills practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between appointments. These options let people fit therapy into work breaks, travel schedules, or days when shorter support feels best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Florida, Nevada, California
- Languages
- English
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