About Dana
Dana Benton is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 17 years of experience. She focuses on grief, self-esteem, career concerns, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Dana aims to help people take small, clear steps toward feeling more steady and sure of themselves.
She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Dana treats each person as the expert on their life and works together with them to set goals.
How Dana works
The work often includes building skills for managing intense feelings and making decisions that fit personal values. Dana draws on several clinical methods to match what a person needs in the moment. She might use cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, or attachment-based practices to address close-relationship patterns.
The choice of approach is based on what will help the person meet their goals. Her background includes long-term work with grief, trauma, mood concerns, and multicultural issues. She also supports people facing caregiver stress, postpartum depression, immigration-related stress, and prejudice or discrimination.
That experience informs a practical, empathic style in sessions. Dana works with straightforward language and concrete tools. Sessions aim to build coping, reduce shame and self-blame, and increase day-to-day functioning.
People who want calm, focused help sorting next steps often find this approach useful.
Dana lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Dana works with
The areas below are the ones Dana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take action toward those values even when emotions are hard. It can be useful for grief, life changes, and low motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them, which often helps with mood and self-esteem. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and coping, helping people understand patterns that affect trust and connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Sessions are collaborative and can blend elements from different approaches so the plan matches what helps most.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging can suit people who want flexibility between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life while using the methods described above.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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