About Dana
Dana Joy is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. He has eight years of experience working with people impacted by substance use and other mental health concerns. He focuses on helping people make sense of their experience so they can move toward change.
Dana draws attention to what lies beneath symptoms. He helps people connect substance use, mood, anxiety, trauma, and life stress to what they are living now.
Background and approach
Sessions include talking through personal history, values, and coping patterns to build self-awareness and options for change. <br He uses straightforward conversations rather than jargon. He will adapt the pace and topics to what each person needs. Faith and spirituality can be part of sessions when a client wants to include them as resources in recovery and healing.
Dana works with people facing depression, bipolar concerns, anxiety, ADHD, grief, anger, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, sleeping problems, and career worries. He also supports people coping with life transitions and trauma-related impacts on daily life. He aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
The first few appointments focus on understanding concerns and building a plan together. People who are ready to change get clear steps and ongoing support to practice new habits between sessions.
Approaches that guide online care
Evidence-based techniques in Dana's practice focus on helping people understand the ties between symptoms and life experiences. One approach emphasizes exploring underlying causes of substance use and related mood or anxiety symptoms, helping clients identify patterns and triggers and develop alternative coping skills. Another approach centers on processing trauma and its everyday effects by pacing conversations and building skills to manage strong emotions and reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Dana will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. He starts by listening, then adjusts the plan as you try different strategies and notice what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care, keep momentum, and use the format that fits day-to-day life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English