About Dayna
Dayna Pitzer is a licensed independent social worker with 18 years of clinical experience based in Ohio. She holds an Ohio LISW and a Massachusetts LICSW and has worked in inpatient psychiatric care, hospice, crisis intervention, and independent practice. Dayna focuses on helping adults manage strong emotions and life changes in practical ways.
Her work followed many settings, including time supporting teenagers involved in the juvenile justice system and later returning to full-time independent practice.
How Dayna works
Hospice work shaped her interest in grief, loss, and end-of-life concerns after caring for a close family member with cancer. Those experiences inform how she supports people facing illness, bereavement, and role changes. Dayna uses straightforward, person-focused methods in sessions.
She draws on client-centered therapy to follow each person’s priorities, cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and dialectical behavior therapy tools for emotion regulation. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also part of her approach when they fit a client’s goals.
She helps people with stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, career worries, and ADHD. Additional areas she addresses include chronic pain and illness, caregiver strain, communication problems, divorce and separation, and end-of-life concerns. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Dayna describes therapy as collaborative and practical, focused on small steps that build coping skills and clearer thinking over time.
Dayna lists 7 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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LISW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Dayna frequently uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy means the session follows the person’s priorities and focuses on their strengths and goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy involves identifying and changing patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to distress, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation is a focus. DBT tools teach techniques for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and tolerating distress in difficult moments. Together these methods give concrete tools people can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens collaboratively. The therapist and client talk about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust over time. This helps tailor the plan to what actually helps the person feel steadier and more able to cope.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills coaching, phone calls can be used when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins, and messaging works well for ongoing support and short updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress moving between sessions.
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