About Dayna
Dayna Pitzer is a licensed independent social worker with 18 years of clinical experience. She practices as an LISW and LICSW and offers support to adults navigating stress, anxiety, ADHD, grief, and major life changes. Her path includes inpatient psychiatric care, crisis work, hospice, and time supporting teenagers in the juvenile justice system earlier in her career.
Dayna draws on hands-on settings to shape practical sessions. She focuses on clear goals, short-term strategies, and steady skill building rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to help people reduce overwhelm, manage strong emotions, and find usable ways to cope day to day. Her background in hospice brought a deep awareness of grief, loss, and end-of-life issues. That experience informs calm, steady support for people facing illness, caregiving strain, or bereavement.
Dayna also has worked with people affected by trauma, domestic violence, and chronic medical problems. Her approach blends client-centered listening with evidence-based tools such as cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She uses these methods to help people change unhelpful thoughts, regulate emotions, and build routines that fit their life.
Dayna offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She practices from Ohio and conducts therapy in English. The subscription model for sessions can be canceled at any time, and scheduling starts by completing a short matching questionnaire online.
Approaches for online change and coping
Dayna uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people make practical changes. Client-centered work means sessions begin with listening closely to what matters most to the person and shaping goals together. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Those skills teach concrete strategies for managing intense feelings, improving communication, and tolerating hard moments without making things worse. Together these approaches give both steady support and tools to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about current struggles, goals, and daily routines, then suggest a mix of methods that fit the person's needs and preferences. Clients and the therapist adjust methods over time based on what works.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier with lower bandwidth, live chat and text are useful for short check-ins or when writing out thoughts helps. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or medical appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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