About Dayna
Dayna Sickau is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who focuses on practical, evidence-based work for people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, and life transitions. She writes simply and meets people where they are. Her approach is aimed at helping clients find clearer footing and more meaning in day-to-day life.
She spends sessions helping people name what feels most urgent and then try small, doable changes. That might mean learning tools to manage panic, talking through relationship patterns, or finding ways to cope with caregiving stress.
Background and approach
The emphasis is on steps that fit into a busy life rather than long abstract conversations. Dayna blends structured strategies with attention to personal history. She pays close attention to how attachment and communication patterns shape current problems.
That helps people understand why they react the way they do and what to try instead. She also supports those working through guilt, shame, isolation, or questions about life purpose. Sessions can address social anxiety, panic attacks, and symptoms linked to past trauma.
The work aims to reduce distress and increase choices in daily life. Dayna has three years of clinical experience in New York. She offers sessions in English using a mix of video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
To begin, a simple matching questionnaire connects people to scheduling options that fit their needs.
Evidence-based techniques for online care
Dayna often uses structured, evidence-based techniques that focus on changing thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and panic. These approaches teach concrete skills for managing symptoms, like breathing and grounding strategies, and ways to test anxious predictions in everyday situations.She also works with approaches that explore parts of a person's inner experience to reduce distress and improve self-relationship. This can help when shame, guilt, or internal conflict make it hard to act in line with personal goals. For trauma-related symptoms, she uses methods aimed at processing painful memories and reducing their emotional intensity so events feel less overwhelming in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques together, and adjust based on how the client responds. Clients help set goals and choose what feels most useful at each stage.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and messaging provides flexible ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English