Dana Steiner
Direct, compassionate counseling for life and relationship change
LCPC Illinois
- Experience
- 26 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Grief, Intimacy-related issues
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Dana
Dana Steiner is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with 26 years of experience. She provides individual and couples therapy focused on everyday relationship struggles, mood concerns, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Dana aims for clear, direct work and a steady, compassionate presence in sessions. Dana listens for what matters most and offers straightforward feedback when it will help.
She asks clients to give feedback too so the plan stays useful and relevant. That back-and-forth helps her tailor sessions to pressing concerns like anxiety, depression, or relationship stress.
She supports people dealing with grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, and the strain of chronic illness. She also helps clients facing addictions, eating and sleeping problems, and career or self-esteem struggles.
Dana has experience with blended family issues, caregiver stress, and infidelity concerns. Dana draws on several approaches in her work.
She uses client-centered methods to make space for each person's story, cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and Gottman Method ideas when working with couples. Mindfulness and dialectical behavior strategies are also tools she uses to teach coping skills.
Her background includes undergraduate study at Washington University in St. Louis and graduate training in Chicago.
Dana describes her style as supportive but candid. She wants clients to feel heard while also moving toward practical change.
How Dana’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment. It helps people feel heard and shapes treatment around their goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change them, which can ease anxiety, depression, and stress. The Gottman Method offers structured ways to improve communication and reduce conflict in relationships, using specific exercises and conversations couples can practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Dana will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life to decide which methods to use. She combines these approaches as needed and adjusts the plan as progress is made so the work stays relevant and achievable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to add flexibility. Video lets couples and individuals practice communication and observe nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat or messaging works well for quick coping skills, check-ins between sessions, or when someone prefers writing. These options help therapy fit into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
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Experience
26+ years
Licensed in
Illinois
Languages
English