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Dana O'Neill

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Dana O'Neill, LCPC, LMHC

Florida

Licensed counselor - relationships and self-esteem

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About

  • CBT techniques
  • DBT skills
  • Mindfulness practice

About Dana

Dana O'Neill is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Nevada and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with nine years of clinical experience. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting concerns, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and addictive behaviors. Sessions focus on practical skills that help people manage overwhelming feelings and day-to-day demands.

Dana describes a practical, skills-based approach that emphasizes noticing thoughts, bodily signals, and patterns of behavior. She draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on the person's goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and test new ways of responding.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practice appear often in her work to help people regulate intense emotion and stay grounded in the present. Motivational Interviewing is brought in when someone wants to change habits tied to substance use, eating behaviors, or routines that no longer serve them. These methods are tools to try, not promises of a particular outcome.

Dana has worked across community, residential, and private-practice settings. That variety informs how she frames steps forward - from short, focused skill practice to longer conversations about identity and life direction. She explains things plainly and focuses on small, manageable changes that fit into busy lives.

People who reach out for help with self-worth, anxiety, relationship issues, or the stresses of parenting can expect straightforward guidance, concrete exercises, and regular check-ins about what is and isn’t working. She offers sessions in English and practices from Florida.

How sessions work

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the client's goals and priorities. Online sessions using this approach focus on what matters most to the person and adjust pacing and topics to their needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches ways to notice and test unhelpful thoughts. In remote sessions this often means practical homework, thought records, and brief experiments to try between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) supplies concrete skills for emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can be practiced in online sessions and reviewed during follow-up to see what helps.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods to try first and will check in regularly about how the chosen approach is working for the client's goals and preferences.

The biography does not specify which online formats are used, so please confirm available session types before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also let people do guided mindfulness or behavioral experiments at home between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt homework and skills practice so clients can build new habits while managing parenting and life responsibilities.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesParenting issuesSelf esteemCoping with life changes

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

Attachment issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCodependencyCommunication problemsControl issuesDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesFamily problemsGuilt and shameInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMoney and financial issuesPanic disorder and panic attacksPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingSolution-Focused Therapy

Experience

9+ years

Listed in

Pennsylvania, Florida, Nevada, California

Languages

English

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What issues does she address related to home life?

She works with adults on relationship strain, parenting concerns, communication problems, family problems, and issues that affect life at home.

What style of therapy does she use in sessions?

Sessions use a mix of client-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, DBT skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing depending on the issue.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has nine years of experience across community, residential, and private-practice settings.

What are her credentials and where does she practice?

She holds NV LCPC and FL LMHC credentials and practices from Florida.

Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?

Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.

What session formats are offered?

Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific online or in-person formats.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin if I want to meet with her?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.

Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.

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