About Dana
Dana Steiner is an Illinois-licensed counselor (LCPC) with 26 years of clinical experience helping people navigate relationship challenges, grief, and major life transitions. She draws on extensive training to address issues such as anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, and the connections between mood and eating or body image.
Background and approach
Dana also works with couples using approaches tailored to intimacy and communication concerns, and she brings experience supporting those coping with chronic or terminal illness and caregiver stress. Her style blends compassion with direct, collaborative feedback so treatment plans are individualized and practical.
Dana emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental atmosphere while inviting clients to share candid responses about what is and isn’t working. That interactive approach helps shape therapy over time and aims to build trust as clients learn new coping skills and strategies.
Trained in mindfulness skills and holding a Level One Gottman Methodology Counselor credential for couples work, she pairs evidence-informed techniques with client-centered care. Dana completed graduate training in Chicago, is licensed in Illinois (LCPC), and maintains a professional focus on helping people find greater balance, connection, and resilience.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the individual's experience by offering empathy, validation, and collaborative goal-setting to help people explore what matters most in their lives. This approach supports healing from grief, stress, and self-esteem concerns by emphasizing the client's own values and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Mindfulness therapy trains attention and nonjudgmental awareness to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation when facing chronic stress or mood disturbances.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to determine which methods fit their goals and preferences, adjusting techniques over time based on what proves most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue care across different circumstances. These options allow clients to access licensed professionals from wherever they are while keeping treatment adaptable to changing needs and availability.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English