About Dana
Dana Legrande is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, mood concerns, addiction, and ADHD with practical, down-to-earth support. Sessions aim to uncover patterns that keep someone stuck and build small, manageable steps toward change.
Dana draws on client-centered and attachment-informed ways of working. She listens for what matters most to each person and helps them connect current struggles to past relationships and experiences.
Background and approach
That context often makes it easier to try new behaviors without feeling overwhelmed. Her background includes over a decade working with people who have both mental health and substance use challenges. Dana uses elements of motivational interviewing and solution-focused work to clarify goals and boost motivation.
She also brings tools from the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are part of the problem. Sessions typically include straightforward psychoeducation, problem identification, and practical behavior changes. Dana often helps people map long-term goals and develop daily routines that support stability and growth.
She believes humor can be part of therapy and that small shifts add up over time. People who choose Dana will find an approachable clinician who emphasizes collaboration and real-world steps. She aims to help clients build skills they can use between sessions and to support steady progress toward clearer priorities and improved functioning.
How Dana’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how earlier relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help someone notice those patterns and try new ways of relating in everyday life. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on active listening and building trust so clients can set their own pace and priorities during sessions. Motivational Interviewing helps people resolve uncertainty and find the personal reasons to change, which is useful for addictions, routine shifts, and goal-setting.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Dana collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, comfort, and daily demands. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress is made or needs shift.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls support a conversation that feels close to an office visit. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework guidance, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or busy routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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