About Dana
Dana Secord is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps adults cope with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship concerns. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about painful thoughts and racing feelings. Dana emphasizes understanding each person’s story and building practical skills for daily life.
She uses straightforward, evidence-based methods to help people manage symptoms and change unhelpful patterns. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical tools, and honest conversation.
Background and approach
Dana invites clients to explore how values, relationships, and habits shape everyday choices. Dana holds a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Texas Wesleyan University. She has six years of clinical experience in independent practice and community health settings.
Her background includes work with people facing substance use, mood disorders, trauma, and identity concerns. In therapy she blends approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with attachment-focused listening. That mix lets her teach coping skills while also addressing how early relationships affect current struggles.
The work is collaborative - the client’s goals guide each step. People who come to Dana often want concrete strategies for managing emotions, improving sleep and eating patterns, or navigating grief and life changes. She also supports those working through intimacy, self-esteem, career concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Sessions can include skill practice, perspective shifts, and planning for small, achievable changes.
How Dana's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing ADHD-related overwhelm by focusing on small value-driven steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more helpful behaviors and routines, which can improve mood, sleep, and daily functioning.Dana approaches treatment collaboratively and will help clients find the best mix of methods for their situation. She listens to each person’s goals and adjusts techniques over time, so the approach can shift as needs change. Finding the right fit is an ongoing conversation rather than a fixed choice.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions are useful when lower bandwidth or hands-free sessions work better. Live chat and text messaging can support brief check-ins, homework, and timely reminders between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on practical strategies and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- 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
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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