- Client-centered approach
- Skill-based work
- Focus on money issues
About Dana
Dana Andrews is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She aims to create an open and nonjudgmental space where people can voice difficult thoughts and feelings. Dana frames therapy as a collaborative process that begins with small, practical steps.
With ten years of experience, Dana uses straightforward methods to help people build confidence and motivation. She helps clients address self-esteem struggles, navigate life changes, and cope after trauma or abuse. Career questions, intimacy-related concerns, ADHD, and bipolar-related challenges are also within her practice focus.
Dana incorporates client-centered work to prioritize each person’s goals and values. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns of thinking that feed anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness and dialectical behavior strategies are used to build moment-to-moment coping skills and emotional regulation.
Her approach is practical and paced to the individual. Sessions often include skill building, short experiments between sessions, and collaborative problem solving. People seeking clearer communication, help with family or immigration stress, or guidance around money and financial issues will find those topics welcomed in conversation.
Dana works in English and practices in New York. She encourages prospective clients to take the initial step of describing what matters most to them so therapy can be shaped around real-life needs.
How Dana's approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to each person. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects understanding, and helps set goals that feel believable and useful. This approach supports people facing stress, relationship concerns, or questions about life purpose. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions often include simple exercises to notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors between meetings. This method can help with anxiety, low mood, and practical issues like managing money-related stress. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dana will discuss options and help decide what fits a client's goals, needs, and comfort level. That choice is revisited as progress is made, so methods can be adjusted. Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, or use shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people practice skills in their everyday environment and bring real-life examples to sessions for problem solving.Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Dana commonly help with?
Dana works with stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy-related issues. She also addresses career questions, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and money and financial issues.
How would you describe Dana's therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and straightforward, combining client-centered care with skill-based methods. Sessions often focus on practical steps and tools to manage feelings and behavior.
What is her professional background?
She has ten years of professional experience working with a range of concerns from trauma to life transitions and motivation.
What credentials and location apply to this therapist?
Dana holds the LCSW credential and practices in New York. Credential details include NY LCSW and ME LCSW.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with Dana?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does pricing and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.