About Dana
Dana Palermo is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois with 20 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and problems with focus and motivation. Dana keeps language simple and direct so busy parents can read easily and decide whether to reach out.
She listens carefully and treats people with respect and sensitivity. Sessions are shaped to each person's needs, with clear goals and steps the client can try between meetings.
How Dana works
Dana aims to help people feel more capable and steady in day-to-day life. Her background includes two decades of work supporting adults with attention and concentration concerns, changing life circumstances, and mood struggles. She also has experience addressing issues related to adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, and eating or food-related difficulties.
Dana works with a range of personality and developmental concerns such as avoidant or dependent personality features, antisocial personality aspects, autism and Asperger Syndrome, dissociation, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. She also helps with communication problems, codependency, and the effects of disasters on daily functioning. In sessions she partners with clients to build realistic strategies for coping and improvement.
She explains options plainly, checks in about what is or is not working, and adjusts the plan when needed. Dana supports people who want steady, practical change and a clearer path forward.
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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Many clients benefit from straightforward, evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and habits. One common approach teaches practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing techniques, activity planning, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations; these help reduce avoidance and increase confidence. Another approach concentrates on attention and organizational strategies for people with ADHD-related struggles, including routines, task breakdown, and tools to support memory and focus; this helps make daily tasks feel more manageable.Choosing the right method is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust based on what the client notices and prefers. Together they set goals and track small changes so the plan fits the person's life and pace.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be used when video is not needed or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These formats make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy routines.
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A practical next step
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