Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
How Dana works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Dana
Dana Hall is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois who helps people manage stress, anger, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She draws on two decades of work in education, crisis response, and clinical settings to guide practical steps people can use now.
Dana focuses on making therapy a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak honestly and start making small changes that matter. She blends straightforward tools with a warm, respectful approach.
Background and approach
Sessions often include mindfulness skills, behavior-focused strategies, and ways to support healthier relationships. Dana has experience designing programs that teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills for real-life situations. Her background includes roles as a crisis management specialist, consultant, educator, and senior supervising therapist.
Those jobs shaped how she prioritizes safety, clear teaching, and steady problem solving in each session. Dana values collaboration and helps people break big problems into manageable steps. People working with her may address grief, addiction, parenting stress, eating and sleeping concerns, life transitions, and identity-related issues.
She also supports coping with chronic illness, control issues, dissociation, and forgiveness work. For readers focused on anger, she emphasizes learning concrete strategies to reduce reactivity and build healthier responses. Dana’s style is empathetic, transparent, and strength-based.
She encourages clients to use small, consistent practices between sessions. That approach aims to create lasting change while respecting each person’s pace.
What Dana works with
Everything Dana lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Dana's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Dana lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Dana Uses Practical Approaches in Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that fit their values; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which can help with anger, sleep, and mood difficulties. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) supports people in understanding and reshaping emotional responses in relationships and can be useful for intimacy and connection concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dana will talk with each client about goals and preferences and then try methods that match those needs. She treats therapy as a collaborative process and adjusts strategies based on what helps most over time.
Online formats she offers include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face when that feels helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and text sessions allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and daily life.
Questions people ask about Dana
What concerns does Dana help with?
Dana works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, anger, and many other life challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is empathetic and collaborative, with a focus on clear teaching and practical skills. Sessions emphasize honest conversation and step-by-step strategies clients can try between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 20 years of experience in education, crisis response, and clinical roles, including work as a senior supervising therapist and consultant.
Where is Dana licensed and located?
She holds an Illinois LCPC license and practices from Illinois.
Which languages are supported and can she work with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Dana?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.