Dana Thomart

Dana Thomart is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 19 years of clinical experience. She helps people who feel stuck by addressing stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. Dana also focuses on caregiver stress, communication problems, control issues, forgiveness, loneliness, and life purpose.

Dana uses conversational, person-focused sessions to clarify what matters most to each client. She listens to practical problems, then applies methods from client-centered work, CBT, and DBT to develop concrete steps forward. Sessions typically include talking through feelings, identifying patterns, and practicing new skills between meetings.

She aims to make the work straightforward. Goals might include reducing overwhelming worry, rebuilding confidence, improving communication, or figuring out next steps after a change. Dana often supports people managing mood shifts and social anxiety by breaking tasks into small, manageable actions.

Over her career she has seen many people juggle caregiving, work, and parenting stress at the same time. That experience informs how she helps set realistic priorities and boundaries. The focus on life purpose appears in conversations about meaning, values, and how daily choices reflect what matters to a client.

New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling an initial session. Dana’s practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and fees vary with location.

How Dana’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what a person is saying. It helps people clarify their own priorities and feel understood during conversations about work, parenting, or life changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact. It is useful for stress, anxiety, low mood, and social anxiety because it teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal communication. These skills can help when strong emotions, control issues, or relationship friction get in the way of daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, and together they decide which methods to use. That collaborative process can shift over time as needs change.

Confirm the session formats available before booking since the biography does not specify them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people join from different rooms at home or from a break at work, and some settings require less bandwidth or no camera for quieter check-ins.