About Dana
Dana Hartshorn is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years of experience. She holds BACP accreditation, and brings a warm, person-focused style to sessions. Dana aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for people feeling stuck or overwhelmed.
Dana uses a mix of client-centred work, attachment ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques. She adapts sessions to each person's needs and helps them set clear, practical goals. Meetings typically focus on small steps that build confidence and coping skills.
How Dana works
She has supported people with stress, anxiety and low mood, plus grief and trauma from earlier experiences. Dana also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, eating concerns, identity questions including gender dysphoria, and workplace strain. Her additional interests include self-harm, personality challenges, bipolar and seasonal mood shifts.
Dana gives space for people to talk without judgement and works with empathy and respect. She often explores how past relationships shape current patterns and uses straightforward tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Sessions balance understanding with practical exercises.
She also brings an interest in eco-therapy and how the wider environment affects wellbeing. That can mean using nature-based examples or encouraging activities outdoors as part of a plan. Dana encourages people to take the next step and build a more authentic life.
Dana lists 4 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapy approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, invites people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. It focuses on identifying values and taking small actions that move a person towards a meaningful life, which can help with anxiety, low mood and feeling stuck.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Sessions often focus on recognising those patterns, increasing emotional safety and learning new ways of connecting with others - useful for relationship and intimacy concerns.
Dana sees finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and adapt methods over time. Together they decide which tools to try and how to build those into daily life.
Online work offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, journalling between sessions or moments when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, travel or family commitments, while keeping the focus on progress and skill-building.
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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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