About Dana
Dana Spitz is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - who brings 22 years of practice to her work in New Jersey. She focuses on practical steps people can use to manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship strain. Dana speaks plainly and aims to help people feel less stuck and more able to cope with daily life.
Her style is client-centered. She listens first, then helps each person set clear goals.
How Dana works
Sessions emphasize strengths and small, achievable changes that add up over time. Cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused work are often part of the plan to address thoughts and behaviors that cause distress. Dana also uses emotionally-focused and trauma-focused approaches when emotions or past hurt are central to the problem.
That work looks at painful memories and relationship patterns and helps people regain a sense of control and connection. She helps parents work through parenting stress and supports people dealing with family conflict, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, and caregiver strain. Clients may bring concerns about codependency, commitment and communication problems, control issues, guilt, shame, loneliness, or feelings of emptiness.
Dana helps people sort these experiences and create realistic coping strategies for work, relationships, and daily life. She partners with each person to remove barriers that block progress. Sessions are offered in English and available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Dana aims to empower people to build skills, reduce suffering, and move toward healing one step at a time.
Dana lists 5 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's goals and strengths and building a treatment plan from there. It emphasizes listening, collaboration, and goals that feel meaningful to the person seeking help. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift difficult emotional responses and improve how they relate to others, which can be useful for relationship and attachment concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dana will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they will try strategies, track what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in, live chat suits quick exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity during life changes.
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