About Dana
Dana Peterson is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of professional experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family conflicts, eating concerns, and depression. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and a Clinical Social Worker credential. Dana works from a strengths-based perspective and encourages clients to build on what already helps them.
She believes each person knows their story best and brings that expertise into sessions.
Background and approach
Dana focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings. She offers straightforward conversation, together with gentle challenges that help people test new ways of coping. Over a decade of practice has included supporting people through attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family challenges, communication problems, and issues related to adoption and foster care.
She also addresses body image, co-morbidity of concerns, and the emotional effects of separation or divorce. Dana adapts work to what each person needs, whether that means short-term coping strategies or longer-term exploration of patterns. Her approach attends to how relationships and family history shape current struggles.
She prioritizes clear goals and regular check-ins so progress stays visible. Sessions are offered in English and are provided remotely through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that suits them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Two common evidence-based directions in this clinician's work are goal-focused skills practice and relational exploration. Goal-focused skills practice breaks challenges into small steps and teaches concrete coping tools to reduce anxiety or manage stress. Relational exploration looks at patterns in relationships and family history to help people change how they relate to others and themselves.Not every approach fits everyone, and finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting methods as progress is observed.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit short updates or moments when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or other commitments and to continue consistent care from wherever the client is located in Georgia.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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