About Dana
Dana Vander Veen is a licensed clinical professional counselor with nine years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She brings a calm, compassionate presence and encourages clients to take the first steps toward feeling more grounded and hopeful.
Dana aims to treat the whole person - mind, body, and spirit - and she helps clients notice how those parts influence daily satisfaction.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now and on practical ways to cope. She works to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about difficult feelings and begin small changes. Her approach is collaborative and gentle.
She listens to each person's story and then helps set clear, manageable goals. Together they try strategies that fit the client's life and values, with attention to coping skills and strengthening self-worth. Dana has supported people through grief, motivation challenges, and issues that stem from family of origin and attachment patterns.
She also addresses concerns such as body image, codependency, control issues, and eating or food-related struggles. Her experience includes helping people process abandonment and commitment worries. Located in Maryland, Dana offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.
She guides people through change at a pace that feels safe and realistic, with an emphasis on practical steps and steady progress.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Many evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on concrete skills and present-moment changes. One common approach teaches practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress, like grounding exercises and step-by-step breathing or behavioral plans to reduce worry and overwhelm. These tools help when symptoms spike and when daily routines feel hard to manage.Another useful approach looks at patterns in relationships and attachment. This method helps people notice how past hurt or abandonment affects current connections, communication, and trust. It supports changes in how someone relates to others and how they respond to emotional triggers.
Finding the best approach usually happens together. Dana works collaboratively with each person to see which techniques fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts the plan over time so strategies feel useful and realistic.
The original profile does not specify session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow follow-up conversations between in-person visits. They also let people choose shorter check-ins or longer weekly sessions depending on what works best for their schedule and energy.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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