About Dana
Dana Steiner is an Illinois-licensed clinical professional counselor with 26 years of experience. She helps people facing relationship problems, grief, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Dana also supports individuals dealing with parenting challenges, body image and eating concerns, chronic illness, and addiction-related stress.
Dana practices in a direct and collaborative way. She offers clear feedback and asks clients to share what is and isn't working. That helps her shape a plan that fits each person’s needs.
How Dana works
Sessions aim to be practical, compassionate, and focused on real-life change. Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and graduate training completed in Chicago.
She became licensed to practice independently in Illinois five years after finishing graduate school. Dana has worked across many clinical settings over her career and brings that experience to individual and couples work. Clinically, Dana draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavior strategies, dialectical behavior ideas, mindfulness, and elements of the Gottman Method when appropriate.
She uses those approaches to teach coping skills, improve communication, and address patterns that keep people stuck. People who choose Dana often want a collaborative therapist who gives honest feedback and practical tools. She aims to build trust while helping clients move toward clearer goals.
If someone is ready to change, she focuses on steady progress and realistic steps forward.
Dana lists 6 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.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on your goals and experiences. It prioritizes listening, empathy, and building a working relationship so clients can find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns.Dana treats the choice of approach as a team effort. She will discuss your needs and preferences, try methods that fit your goals, and adjust as you progress. That collaborative process helps find what works best for communication, coping, or relationship goals.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let you work face-to-face when that helps, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats help people access therapy around work, caregiving, or mobility limits while keeping the focus on practical skill building and steady progress.
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