Dana Teeter, LCSW

How Dana’s Approaches Fit Online Work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's goals. It helps people feel heard and shapes sessions around what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and parenting stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds practical emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills that help when strong emotions feel overwhelming.

Dana treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques that match those goals, and adjust methods based on what works. That collaborative process helps decide whether CBT, DBT, mindfulness, or a mix will be most helpful for a given concern.

Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when demonstration of skills matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief coaching, follow-up questions, or steady support between longer sessions. These formats provide flexibility so people can practice skills and get guidance without extra travel or scheduling strain.