About Dana
Dana McPherson helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression, and trauma. She also supports clients dealing with self-esteem, career shifts, LGBT concerns, and life changes. Dana is a licensed clinical social worker with four years of experience and practices in Oregon.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. She listens first, then works with each person to set small, workable goals. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings.
How Dana works
Dana aims to make progress feel manageable rather than overwhelming. She uses a mix of approaches based on what the person needs. That can include client-centered work that follows the person's lead, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts, and mindfulness exercises to reduce stress.
She also draws on dialectical behavior skills and motivational interviewing to address emotion regulation and motivation. Dana often helps with issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, and end-of-life questions. She also supports people coping with medical challenges like cancer and hospice situations.
Her practice addresses communication problems, control issues, codependency, and the complex feelings of guilt and shame. People who choose her can expect collaborative planning and clear next steps. She tailors sessions to each person, and she encourages small experiments between sessions.
Dana aims to support steady change over time, not quick fixes.
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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. Online sessions allow the therapist to hear what matters most and build goals together, which works well for relationship concerns, grief, and self-esteem issues.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. In remote sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thoughts together and trying short exercises or homework between appointments to test new ways of thinking.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Skills coaching by video, phone, or text can help people practice grounding, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation during real-life moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past, then try methods that fit. This is a collaborative decision and can be adjusted as work progresses.
Online therapy offers practical benefits in scheduling and access. Video calls let people see facial cues and body language. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief touchpoints into a busy day. These options help people keep continuity of care and try different formats to find what feels most useful.
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