About Danna
Danna Russell is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She practices in Utah and focuses on practical ways to make daily life feel more manageable. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Her sessions often begin by identifying immediate problems and small, doable steps. She uses tools drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
She also brings approaches that address deeper emotional wounds when those come up. Danna pays attention to the pressures caregivers face and the strain of compassion fatigue. She helps people who are coping with codependency, impulsivity, workplace stress, or concerns tied to ADHD.
The work typically involves learning skills for clearer communication and healthier boundaries. She also supports people moving through grief, guilt, or shame by slowing the pace and naming the feelings that are getting in the way. Internal Family Systems is part of her toolkit for understanding conflicting parts of a person’s inner life.
When past events are traumatic, she may use EMDR-informed methods alongside other techniques. In sessions she aims to combine practical skill-building with respectful listening. People often leave with concrete tasks to try between meetings and a clearer sense of what to work on next.
The focus is on steady, realistic change that fits each person’s life.
How online methods and therapeutic approaches work together
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to test what works. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and day-to-day stress because it gives concrete skills to practice between sessions.EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is an approach that helps reduce the hold of distressing memories by pairing focused attention with guided processing. It is often used when past events continue to cause strong emotional or bodily reactions.
Internal Family Systems looks at conflicting inner parts and helps a person access their core calm to lead change. This approach can clarify why someone feels stuck and make it easier to shift long-standing patterns.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that match those goals. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, so clients play an active role in deciding the path forward.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow visual connection for skill work and deeper conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat works well for brief check-ins or quick practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain momentum between sessions.
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- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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