Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
How Dana works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Years in practice
- 22
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Dana
Dana Spitz is an LCSW licensed in New Jersey with 22 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, client-centered approach that helps people name their problems and build realistic goals. Dana listens carefully and partners with each person to move toward healthier ways of coping and relating.
Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, and trauma and abuse. She also supports parents facing the strain of caregiving and people dealing with family conflict, attachment concerns, or isolation.
Background and approach
Practical skill-building is a common part of sessions, so clients leave with tools they can use between meetings. Dana integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and solution-focused methods to set short-term, achievable steps. She draws on emotionally-focused and trauma-focused approaches when relationships or past harms are central to a concern.
Together with each client she creates a treatment plan tailored to specific needs and obstacles. Sessions emphasize clear goals and steady progress. Dana works at a measured pace, balancing empathy with strategies that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
She aims to help people gain insight, develop new skills, and feel more able to manage life’s challenges. People who choose Dana typically want a practical, compassionate partner for change. She encourages small steps and celebrates progress along the way.
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dana lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Solution-Focused 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.
Approaches that guide online therapy and progress
Client-centered therapy invites the therapist to follow the client’s priorities, listen closely, and shape goals together. This approach is useful when someone needs a steady, empathetic partner to sort through emotions and decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It breaks problems into manageable pieces and teaches practical skills for anxiety, depression, anger, and stress-related patterns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on emotions and connection. It helps people name core feelings and shift patterns that keep them stuck, which can be helpful when relationships or attachment wounds are central to the concern.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Dana will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, note-taking between sessions, or when shorter, more frequent contact helps maintain momentum.
Questions people ask about Dana
What kinds of problems does Dana address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, relationship and parenting concerns, and related issues like isolation and codependency.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Dana uses a client-centered style that teams up with people to set goals, add practical skills, and solve immediate problems.
What background and experience informs her work?
She has 22 years of experience as a clinical social worker and has supported people with a wide range of emotional and relational challenges.
Where is she licensed and based?
Dana is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in New Jersey.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers 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 that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the therapist’s availability.