Dana is a Licensed Professional Counselor in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and is registered to provide telemental health services to residents of Florida. In addition, she is an Approved Clinical Supervisor through the Center for Credentialing and Education. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Gordon College in 2005 and went on to earn her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and Applied Psychology from Rowan University in 2008. Dana has experience working with children, adolescents, and adults in several different settings since 2005 and has been a part of Artemis since 2016.
Dana’s clinical experience and training has led to a focus and expertise in addressing trauma-related concerns, maternal mental health, and overall concerns related to anxiety and depression. Dana takes an integrative and eclectic approach to therapy pulling from EMDR, attachment theory, parts work, interpersonal neurobiology, CBT, and DBT.
Dana has completed Level 1 and 2 training for EMDR and is currently pursuing certification. Dana has received training in CBT-I, a specific cognitive-behavioral protocol for addressing insomnia. She has also completed extensive training in diagnosing anxiety and OCD and exposure protocols for treating these concerns. Dana has taken this training to provide an exposure-informed approach to addressing and supporting these concerns. When appropriate, Dana will also utilize parenting based interventions such as the S.P.A.C.E. protocol (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), which is a ground breaking approach to treatment child and adolescent anxiety and OCD related concerns by working directly with the parents to reduce accommodating behaviors.
Dana offers a Christian faith-based perspective to those clients who express an interest in this being incorporated into their therapy.
