About Dara
Dara Damico is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and trauma. She practices in New York and focuses on clear, practical steps that people can use day to day. Dara aims to create a calm space where people feel heard and respected from the first visit.
She uses familiar, straightforward methods to help people cope with intense feelings and break unhelpful patterns.
How Dara works
Sessions often include skills for managing panic, improving sleep, and addressing obsessive or compulsive behaviors. She also supports people working through identity concerns, gender dysphoria, and issues related to adoption and attachment. Dara blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools to look at thoughts and behavior together.
She draws on dialectical behavior techniques to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help people notice their experience without judgment. Her background includes long-term clinical work with people facing substance use, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue.
She pays attention to how life transitions, career strain, and relationship intimacy affect day-to-day functioning. Dara uses practical coaching when clients want concrete steps toward goals. People who reach out can expect a collaborative style that balances empathy with action.
She prefers short, focused plans with measurable steps, and she adjusts the pace to each person’s needs. The aim is to leave clients with tools they can actually use between sessions.
Dara lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Dara works with
The areas below are the ones Dara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Dara Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening with genuine interest and following the person's lead to identify what matters most. It helps people feel understood and choose goals that fit their life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better relationships, which can help with intense emotions and self-destructive behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dara collaborates with each person to see which methods fit their needs and goals. She may combine listening-based, skills-driven, and mindfulness practices so the plan matches what the person wants to change and how they prefer to learn.
Online therapy lets people access these approaches through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and visual connection, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain progress over time.
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