About Dana
Dana Hall is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. She brings 20 years of experience from roles in education, crisis management, and therapeutic programs. Dana aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what’s weighing on them and take practical steps forward.
She uses straightforward techniques to address symptoms and daily challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building coping skills for intense emotions, improving communication, and managing problems like sleep, eating, addiction, or anger. Dana also supports people dealing with identity and LGBT-related concerns and those facing major life changes or caregiving strain. Dana draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior ideas, emotionally focused work, and client-centered care.
She treats each person as an individual and adapts methods to fit their needs instead of following one set plan. Conversations are collaborative and geared toward measurable changes in everyday life. Her background includes time at therapeutic treatment facilities and roles as a consultant and supervising therapist.
That experience shapes how she blends practical skill-building with attention to personal history and trauma. Dana values honesty and warmth in the relationship and encourages clients to share their stories at their own pace. People looking for help with coping skills, relationship patterns, or intense emotions can expect direct feedback, skill practice, and a focus on realistic steps.
Dana works with adults aiming to move past obstacles and regain a sense of direction and wellbeing.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then commit to actions that match their values. It can help when anxiety, avoidance, or uncertainty get in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, or sleep problems. It’s a practical, step-by-step way to change patterns that cause distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust those methods over time based on what helps most in everyday life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let conversations feel closest to in-person sessions, while phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter updates, homework feedback, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family, and other demands, and allow a consistent therapeutic process across locations and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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