Dana Secord

Dana Secord is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and stress. She also supports those dealing with trauma, substance concerns, identity questions, and life transitions. Dana works in a calm, respectful way that encourages honesty and steady progress.

She creates a space where clients can talk without judgment. Sessions focus on understanding your story and noticing patterns that keep you stuck. Dana uses mindfulness and practical strategies to help slow racing thoughts and manage strong emotions.

Dana earned a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Texas Wesleyan University and holds LPC credentials in Colorado and Texas. Her work includes experience in private practice and community health settings. That background includes supporting people affected by sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress, domestic violence, and mood disorders.

In sessions she blends different approaches to fit each person. She leans on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered work, attachment ideas, and cognitive behavioral techniques when they match the client’s needs. The goal is to build insight, useful skills, and clearer choices.

Dana sees adults and focuses on collaboration. She treats each person as the expert on their life and builds a treatment plan together. This often includes practical exercises, mindfulness practices, and ways to strengthen relationships and self-awareness.

How Dana’s approaches translate to online work

Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts and body sensations without getting swept away by them. It can be useful for anxiety, racing thoughts, sleep problems, and stress by teaching short attention and breathing practices to use day to day.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions toward them while accepting difficult thoughts. This approach often helps with depression, overwhelm, and making life changes when thinking feels stuck.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns and helps people build safer, more connected ways of relating. It can be helpful for intimacy-related issues, communication problems, and attachment concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods as sessions progress. That collaborative planning helps make therapy more practical and aligned with daily life.

Confirm current online session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, cut travel time, and use short check-ins when needed. It also allows practicing mindfulness and skills in real-life moments between sessions, so strategies move from talk into everyday routines.