Dana Steiner
Experienced counselor who gives honest feedback
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Dana
Dana Steiner is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 26 years of experience practicing in Illinois. She works with individuals and couples on relationship concerns, stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and intimacy-related issues. Dana also helps with parenting challenges and the emotional effects of chronic illness and major life changes.
Her style is direct yet warm; she gives honest feedback and asks clients to offer feedback in return to tailor the work together.
Background and approach
Clients find her approach supportive and compassionate. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through problems and learn new ways to cope. Dana combines practical skills training with clear communication and collaborative goal-setting.
Her training includes focused instruction in mindfulness skills and certification in the Gottman Method at level one for couples work. Dana is licensed in Illinois as an LCPC and has a long career that began after graduate training in Chicago. She also holds a certification as a supervisor for Licensed Professional Counselors and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors.
Outside of training and awards, Dana emphasizes honesty in the therapy room. She gives feedback when it helps and invites clients to respond so the plan stays relevant. That approach is intended to speed progress and keep work focused on what matters most to each client.
If someone is ready to change, she frames therapy as a partnership. Dana aims to support and empower clients as they build new skills, manage life transitions, and address relationship and emotional challenges.
Practical therapy approaches for online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening carefully and following what matters most to the client. It helps people clarify goals and feel understood while they work through relationship and life challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress. Those tools can make daily life easier by changing unhelpful patterns.Dana views choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She will help identify which methods fit a person’s needs and goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That way the work stays practical and responsive to changing concerns.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect that can fit busy family schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for skill practice and couples work, phone sessions let people talk when video isn’t convenient, and live chat or text-based messaging can support short check-ins and skill reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life while still working with licensed professionals to address relationship, parenting, and emotional concerns.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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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
Next step
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- Stop at any point