- CBT techniques
- DBT skills
- Mindfulness practice
About Dana
Dana Phillips is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with 10 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and anger. She also works with trauma, addiction concerns, grief, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and body image issues.
Dana draws on a client-centered approach that keeps the person’s experience central. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when helpful. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear in her work to support clearer thinking and stronger motivation.
In sessions she talks through what’s happening now, then looks for small, doable changes. That can mean learning new ways to notice triggers, testing different responses, or practicing calming skills between meetings. Dana aims for straight talk and realistic steps rather than long lists of theory.
Her background includes graduate work in counseling at The College of New Jersey and a history of school counseling and substance-use prevention work. That experience shaped how she approaches crisis, behavior concerns, and family-related stress. It also informed her work with adoption, attachment, blended-family issues, and caregiver stress.
Dana has worked in both school and private-practice settings. She offers help on common everyday problems like communication struggles, commitment issues, codependency, and coping with life changes. People who want practical strategies for anger, control issues, or family conflict often seek this kind of hands-on counseling.
Her sessions emphasize collaboration. She listens for what a person already does well, then builds on those strengths with evidence-informed techniques. Clients set the goals and she helps test what works in daily life.
How Dana’s approaches translate to online work
Clients often use cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT is straightforward and works well for anger, anxiety, and depression by breaking problems into manageable steps.Dialectical behavior therapy focuses on building practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication. DBT-style skills can help reduce reactivity and improve interactions with others.
Dana also uses client-centered techniques that prioritize the person’s own goals. She brings in mindfulness and motivational interviewing when they fit, to help with motivation and present-moment awareness. Finding the right mix is collaborative; she helps clients decide which tools to try based on goals, history, and what feels useful in practice.
If you plan to work online, confirm the session formats before booking so you know what’s offered. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, or remove the need to travel. Therapists and licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and skills practice to work in virtual sessions so daily life skills are practiced between meetings.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Listed in
New Jersey
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
Dana works with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship and family concerns, trauma and substance-related issues among others.
What is her therapy style?
She uses a client-centered approach and mixes practical methods like CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to address problems.
How much experience does she have?
She has 10 years of experience in counseling, including school counseling and private practice work.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does payment work?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.