About Dana
Dana Vander Veen helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and major life transitions. She brings a caring, compassionate presence and focuses on the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. Dana is identified with the LCPC credential and has nine years of professional experience in Maryland.
She aims to make the therapy space welcoming and nonjudgmental. Sessions are meant to let people talk honestly about their thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Dana emphasizes practical steps alongside emotional understanding so people can try new ways of coping between meetings. Her background includes work with grief, motivation, and the effects of trauma. She also supports people dealing with attachment and abandonment issues, communication and control problems, and eating or body-image concerns.
These focus areas often connect to family of origin and relationship patterns. In sessions she listens first, then collaborates on goals and strategies. The approach combines emotional support with techniques that address daily life challenges.
Goals typically include reducing anxiety, improving self-worth, and finding clearer ways to handle change. Dana encourages people to take small steps that build toward bigger changes. She frames setbacks as information, not failure, and helps people identify what works for them.
Her style is steady, pragmatic, and rooted in respect for each person’s values and experiences.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Many therapists use evidence-based techniques that combine emotional support with practical skills. One common approach focuses on building coping skills for anxiety and stress by teaching breathing, grounding, and activity-based strategies that reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning. Another approach attends to trauma and attachment by helping people make sense of past experiences and build safer ways of relating to themselves and others.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will listen to concerns and goals, and then recommend methods that seem helpful. Clients and the therapist can adjust methods over time based on what fits and what leads to progress.
Practical benefits of online therapy include easier scheduling and fitting sessions into a busy week. Online options can reduce travel time and make it simpler to keep regular appointments. Because the original biography does not list specific session formats, confirm available formats before booking so you know how sessions will be held. Licensed professionals can work with people across locations when arrangements are appropriate, and Dana accepts international clients according to the information provided.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English