About Dana
Dana Secord is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and substance concerns. She works with adults on issues like relationship strain, grief, self-esteem, ADHD, and struggles with intimacy and body image. Dana aims to create an accepting place where people can talk about hard feelings without judgment.
Dana uses plain, direct conversation to help clients make sense of their story. She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral techniques, and client-centered work to support practical change.
How Dana works
Sessions focus on what matters to each person and on small steps that fit daily life. She earned a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Texas Wesleyan University and holds LPC credentials in Colorado and Texas. Over six years she has worked in community health and independent practice, supporting people with mood concerns, trauma, eating struggles, and complicated grief.
In sessions she encourages people to name what they’re feeling and to try different tools for coping. That may include learning new ways to manage overwhelming thoughts, practicing communication skills, or building routines that improve sleep and eating. Dana views clients as the experts on their lives and aims to build a collaborative plan.
Therapy is presented as a process of trying things, checking what works, and adjusting goals over time. The approach is flexible and shaped around each person’s needs.
Dana lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- 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
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How Dana’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small committed steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, mood shifts, and sleep or eating problems. Attachment-Based Therapy examines patterns in relationships and emotional bonds to help people understand intimacy, attachment issues, and communication problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dana will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily demands. That may mean mixing ACT, CBT, or attachment-focused ideas and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let someone work face-to-face when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, ongoing check-ins and skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep regular contact while trying new strategies.
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