About Dayna
Dayna Hunt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 27 years of practice in California. She focuses on helping people struggling with stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, depression, and addictions. Dayna also works with concerns like parenting, ADHD, career changes, and compassion fatigue.
Her approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, EMDR, and a client-centered style. She uses these methods to help people notice their thoughts, build practical coping skills, and clarify what matters most to them.
How Dayna works
Sessions often involve teaching emotion regulation, improving communication, and trying new ways of responding to old patterns. Dayna’s training and long experience have taken her into schools, family service agencies, corporate settings, and independent practice. Over nearly three decades she has helped people navigate life transitions such as divorce and blended family issues, postpartum challenges, midlife shifts, and career changes.
She also addresses family of origin concerns, guilt and shame, isolation, and financial stress. People meet Dayna where they are and work on clear, achievable goals. Therapy can include learning distress-tolerance skills, reshaping unhelpful thoughts, and processing painful memories when appropriate.
Her style is practical and focused on small changes that add up. She practices in California and conducts sessions in English. Dayna supports people seeking help for mood disorders, eating concerns, anger, forgiveness work, and issues tied to pregnancy and seasonal mood shifts.
Dayna lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Dayna works with
The areas below are the ones Dayna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approach-driven care available online
Dayna uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people get clear about what matters to them and to take small steps toward those values. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her work when thoughts and behaviors keep someone stuck. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and trying different actions to change mood and daily functioning. It is often used for mood disorders, stress, and some anxiety patterns.
She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills are practical tools for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and reducing conflict.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit a person’s needs, and adjust over time. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to emphasize.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone calls can suit those with limited bandwidth, and messaging formats can support quick check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and adapt as circumstances change.
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