About Dana
Dana Hall is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. She brings 20 years of experience in education and mental health to her work. Dana aims to make therapy a warm, respectful place where clients can talk openly and start to feel better.
Her style is empathetic and direct. She blends practical strategies with listening and reflection.
How Dana works
Sessions focus on uncovering what’s getting in the way, and building small, realistic steps to change. She emphasizes coping skills that people can use between meetings. Dana draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy.
She adapts tools to fit each person’s needs, for example teaching mindfulness and emotion regulation skills or guiding work on values and committed action. Her background includes roles as a crisis management specialist, educator, consultant, and supervising therapist at treatment programs. That experience informs a steady, practical approach to hard problems like addiction, grief, parenting strain, and chronic illness.
Dana welcomes LGBTQ people and follows professional standards related to transgender health. She supports people through life changes, career concerns, struggles with intimacy, and compassion fatigue. If someone is ready to start, she helps them find clear first steps and build sustainable routines for recovery and growth.
Dana lists 9 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Practical approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on values and small actions. It helps people notice difficult thoughts and still move toward a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding emotions in relationships and strengthening connection and expression.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dana will help figure out which methods fit a person’s needs and goals. That choice is collaborative and may change as progress is made. The therapist mixes approaches based on what helps someone make steady improvements.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and skill practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing contact between meetings. These options make therapy flexible for different routines and life demands.
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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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