About Dana
Dana Steiner is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 26 years of clinical experience. She sees individuals and couples and focuses on practical help for common life struggles. Dana aims to make therapy straightforward and collaborative from the first session.
She works with people facing relationship strain, grief, anxiety, depression, stress, and changes like divorce or career shifts. Dana also helps with issues around food and body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Her approach is warm and direct; she gives feedback and asks clients to do the same so treatment stays relevant. Dana blends client-centered work with evidence-informed techniques. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation.
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to build awareness and calm. In couples work she uses elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and restore connection. Sessions are practical and focused on day-to-day changes that make life easier.
Clients can expect clear goals, skills to try between visits, and regular check-ins on progress. She trained in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis and completed graduate work in Chicago.
Dana’s style is compassionate and straightforward. She aims to help people feel more capable and less overwhelmed as they work toward specific goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online flexibility
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities, offering a respectful space where the therapist listens and follows the client's lead to set goals and make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotional regulation and coping, useful when strong emotions make daily life harder.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dana will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She combines approaches when that makes sense and adjusts plans based on what helps most in real life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and preferences. Video calls allow for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break, and chat or messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make regular sessions more accessible and let people keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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