Dana Hall

Dana Hall is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and trauma. She offers straightforward support for relationship struggles, grief, addiction concerns, parenting strain, attention challenges, and questions about identity and intimacy. Her tone is warm and direct, and she invites people to begin where they are without judgment.

Dana brings 20 years of clinical experience in education, crisis work, and therapeutic programs. She has worked as a senior supervising therapist and program developer, and she has helped design individualized DBT-based coping programs. Her work emphasizes practical skills such as mindfulness, emotional regulation, and improving how people relate to others.

Sessions focus on building tools to handle strong emotions and recurring patterns. Dana draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and a client-centered approach. She blends these methods to fit each person's needs rather than using a single formula.

Her style is empathetic, transparent, and strength-based. She highlights honest conversation and practical steps over labels and blame. People can expect an attentive listener who points to small, achievable steps that make daily life feel more manageable.

Dana practices in Illinois and works with trauma-related concerns alongside everyday stressors. She welcomes conversations about life transitions, career questions, chronic illness, and forgiveness as part of broader healing and growth.

How her approaches work for online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small action steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like depression, worry, and anger. It offers concrete exercises and homework to practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal skills; it can be especially helpful for intense emotions and repeated patterns that cause conflict.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Dana will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person's goals and preferences. She combines tools from these approaches to match what a client needs rather than using a single plan from the start.

Confirm the exact session formats before booking, as the profile does not list them. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy routine, cut travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also supports regular practice of skills learned in sessions, with written exercises and in-the-moment coaching that translate to daily life.