Dana Spitz

Dana Spitz is an LCSW licensed in New Jersey with 22 years of experience. She uses a client-centered way of working and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Dana listens for what matters most to each person and helps them set clear, realistic goals.

She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and emotional abuse. She also helps with relationship and family challenges, parenting struggles, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and coping with life changes. Additional areas include attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care topics, caregiver stress, codependency, and feelings of isolation.

Her sessions blend client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused strategies. That means she helps people notice patterns of thinking and behavior, try small experiments, and build step-by-step plans to change what isn't working. Trauma-focused ideas are used when past harm is getting in the way of daily life.

Dana emphasizes working together as a partner. She pays attention to strengths and practical needs, and she names barriers that interfere with progress. Then she and the person in therapy create a plan to move forward and practice new skills.

She frames therapy as a courageous step toward insight and healing. The focus is on learning skills to manage strong emotions, repair relationships, and move toward meaningful change. Dana aims to walk alongside people through that process.

How Dana’s Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy centers the person's concerns and goals. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the person choose what to work on first. This approach supports people who want a collaborative, paced process for handling stress, grief, or family issues.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Dana helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns, try small experiments, and develop new coping skills. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and anger because it gives concrete tools to practice between sessions.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and shift strong emotions that affect relationships. It can be useful when connection, attachment, or communication problems are causing pain. Dana combines this with solution-focused work to build short-term steps toward change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dana will discuss what feels most useful based on goals, history, and preferences, and she adjusts plans as progress is made. The process is collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Licensed professionals can adapt tools and homework to work in an online setting so progress continues between meetings.