About Dana
Dana Phillips is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) who focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing everyday challenges. She centers sessions on respect and open conversation so clients can talk honestly about stress, relationships, mood, and attention concerns like ADHD. Dana keeps sessions straightforward.
She listens first, then helps people build clearer routines, manage anxiety, or navigate grief and life changes. She also addresses parenting stress, substance use concerns, body image, and communication problems that come up in daily life.
Background and approach
Her background includes ten years working in counseling settings across New Jersey, including school counseling and work supporting families. That experience brings a practical sense of how routines, school or work demands, and family roles affect mood and behavior. Dana draws on that experience when helping people set realistic goals and small steps forward.
Therapy with Dana blends client-centered care with practical techniques. She uses strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills. Motivational interviewing and mindfulness approaches are used to strengthen motivation and reduce reactivity.
Sessions are collaborative. Dana helps people clarify what matters, pick doable goals, and practice skills between visits. The aim is steady improvement in daily functioning, managing ADHD-related challenges, and feeling more in control of relationships and mood.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Client-centered therapy places the person's priorities at the center of each session and emphasizes listening, empathy, and collaboration to set goals and make changes. It helps when someone needs a therapist who will follow their lead and adapt to what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing daily routines and attention challenges by teaching concrete skills and practiceable steps.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It can be helpful for people who want better emotion regulation, clearer communication, and fewer relationship conflicts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to try methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust strategies as progress is made. That collaborative process helps tailor techniques to daily life and specific challenges.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for more in-depth sessions where seeing facial cues helps the work. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging are good for brief check-ins, coaching on specific skills, or when someone needs flexible ways to stay connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines.
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What this therapist 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
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