Dana Wester
Compassionate integrative counsellor for everyday struggles
About Dana
Dana Wester helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship strain. She works with issues such as trauma and abuse, anger, grief, self-esteem and identity. She also supports people dealing with parenting concerns, intimacy-related challenges, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD and career pressures.
Dana is a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) registered counsellor with eight years of professional experience. She uses an integrative approach, drawing on several well-established therapies to match the needs of each person.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at making talking and reflection straightforward and practical. Her style is calm and accepting. She focuses on creating a warm space where clients can say what they feel without judgement.
The client is placed at the centre of the work and decisions about direction are collaborative. In practice Dana mixes different ways of working to suit the person in front of her. That can include talking therapies, creative methods such as art and play, and practical tools for coping and planning.
She explains options clearly and helps people try techniques between sessions. She has experience supporting people with additional concerns like attachment and abandonment worries, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image and eating-related problems, chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress and the fallout of separation or domestic violence. Dana accepts international clients and offers remote session formats to increase access.
What Dana works with
Sessions & fees
How integrative approaches work online
Many of Dana's methods are adaptable to remote work. Cognitive approaches focus on spotting patterns in thoughts and testing new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. These techniques are useful for stress, worry and low mood and often include simple exercises to try between sessions.Creative and experiential approaches such as art-based work or play techniques let people use drawing, movement or metaphor to express difficult feelings. These methods can help when words feel limited and are useful for trauma, grief and identity concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Dana works with each person to agree which methods to try and adjusts the plan as needs change. Decisions are made together, based on the client's goals and preferences.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual feedback, phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel while accessing registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
