Dana Phillips, LPC

Dana Phillips is a Licensed Professional Counselor with ten years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, and major life changes. She uses practical methods to help clients manage mood, behavior, and everyday challenges. Dana works in New Jersey and offers sessions in English.

Dana favors a straightforward, client-centered approach. She listens first and helps people set clear goals. Sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small changes that lead to better coping. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside useful skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness.

Dana often helps people tackle problems like communication breakdowns, codependency, low self-esteem, and stress from caregiving or illness. She pays attention to how family of origin and attachment issues shape current struggles. Sessions mix practical exercises, motivational techniques, and space to process difficult feelings.

People who choose to work with Dana can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental tone and step-by-step work toward goals. She invites clients who are ready to try new strategies and make small, meaningful changes in daily life.

How Dana’s Approaches Work Online

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice thoughts that feed anxiety or low mood and try different ways of thinking and acting. It is useful for worry, depression, stress, and behavior changes. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, respect, and working at the client’s pace so people feel heard and make their own choices. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions, improving focus, and handling conflict more effectively.

Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. Dana will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques together, and adjust the plan based on what is helpful. She views therapy as a partnership where the client’s preferences and daily life guide the work.

Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and do deeper skill practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in or fit into a busy day with lower bandwidth needs. Live chat and text messaging work for short updates, mood check-ins, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options offer flexibility so people can fit sessions into work, school, or caregiving schedules while continuing steady progress.