- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Dana
Dana Hall is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, parenting strain, grief, and issues like addiction or ADHD. She aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk honestly and begin to feel more capable again.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions focus on learning skills for emotional regulation, managing worry, improving relationships, and making day-to-day life more manageable.
Background and approach
Dana draws from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to tailor tools to each person’s needs. Before independent practice she worked in education and mental health for many years. Her past roles include crisis management, clinical supervision, and consulting at treatment facilities.
That background informs a steady, experienced approach to helping people move from feeling stuck to making workable changes. Dana emphasizes collaboration in the therapy room. She listens to what matters most, offers clear strategies, and helps people practice new ways of coping between sessions.
Parents who need help with stress, sleep, or parenting-related strain will find concrete techniques and paced support. People describe her style as warm, direct, and strengths-based. She welcomes LGBTQ concerns and follows inclusive standards of care.
Dana works from Illinois and offers sessions that fit different schedules and needs.
What Dana works with
Everything Dana lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Dana helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Dana lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Dana’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them. Online sessions using ACT often involve practical exercises and simple home practices to help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. In remote sessions Dana helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns, practices new responses, and assigns brief exercises to try during the week to improve mood and coping.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. Those skills are useful for managing intense emotions, stress, and relationship challenges and can be taught and practiced over video or messaging.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dana will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts techniques as progress is made and checks in about what is and isn’t helpful.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and text help with quick reflections, check-ins between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options increase flexibility and let people use approaches like ACT, CBT, and DBT from wherever they are located.
Questions people ask about Dana
What kinds of concerns does Dana address?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, grief, addiction, ADHD, and related life changes.
What is her therapy style like?
Sessions are collaborative and practical. Dana uses a warm, transparent approach and focuses on skills you can use between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 20 years of experience working in education and mental health, including roles in crisis management, supervision, and clinical consultation.
What credentials and where is she licensed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with an Illinois LCPC credential and practices from Illinois.
Does she hold sessions in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
Dana provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and the subscription model is used; the subscription can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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