Dana Andrews

Dana Andrews is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New York with 10 years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, self-esteem concerns, depression, and questions about life purpose.

She focuses on practical conversations that help clients sort through what matters now. Sessions tend to look like focused talks where thoughts and feelings are named, patterns are noticed, and small changes are tried between meetings. Dana mixes talk with concrete tools to help manage strong emotions and to address motivation and confidence problems.

Her background includes work across common life transitions and issues such as trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, career uncertainty, ADHD, and bipolar mood concerns. She also addresses communication problems, family stress, immigration-related challenges, money and financial worries, and multicultural concerns.

Therapeutic approaches Dana uses include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. These approaches inform how she structures sessions and selects exercises to practice outside appointments.

People who come to her for life purpose questions often begin by clarifying values and testing small steps toward different choices. She encourages practical experiments - short, manageable actions that reveal what feels useful. That way clients can learn from action rather than from abstract planning alone.

How Dana’s therapeutic approaches work online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping people articulate what matters to them. It’s about reflecting back what someone says and using that to guide next steps, which can help with life purpose and self-esteem questions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. It involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing different ways of responding, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation issues.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can be helpful for relationship struggles, impulsive behaviors, and strong mood swings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dana will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, and then suggest methods to try. Clients and therapist decide collaboratively which techniques to use and when to change direction.

Session formats are not listed here, so confirm available options before booking. Many people find remote sessions easier to fit into daily life because they reduce travel time, let them schedule brief check-ins around work, or allow them to use audio-only when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Practical benefits often include more frequent contact and the ability to try skills between meetings in real situations.