About me

I am licensed in California with 4 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, & trauma and abuse. I believe in treating everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. I will tailor our dialog and treatment plan to meet your unique and specific needs. Taking the first step to seeking a more fulfilling and happier life takes courage. I am here to support you in that process.

Specialties

  • Stress, Anxiety
  • Relationships
  • Trauma, Abuse
  • Grief
  • Depression
Also experienced in:
LGBT , Family conflicts , Self esteem , Career difficulties , Coping with life changes , Abandonment , Aging and geriatric issues , Attachment issues , Autism and Asperger Syndrome , Blended family issues , Body image , Cancer , Read more...

Clinical approaches:
Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy

Years of Experience: 4

Services offered


  • Messaging

  • Phone

  • Video

Licensing

OR LCSW L16003

CA LCSW LCSW123245

Reviews

These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Dana McPherson. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with Regain might be different.

Written on Jan 06, 2025 after therapy with Dana for 1 month on issues concerning relationship

I appreciate that Dana listens to everything, she doesn’t just hear you, but listens. The thing I appreciate most is that when you present a struggle to Dana, she responds with “I wonder if….” And goes on to respond and provide the explanation, answer, reason, etc. This approach that she takes to struggles that people have is important to me because she doesn’t tell me what’s wrong or what happened, she invites an idea and it allows me to understand it better. For some reason, being told what’s wrong makes me defensive and she presents it in a way that is welcoming.

She seems very knowledgeable, and she has showed me different perspectives on parts of my life that I haven’t even looked at before, even after playing these parts of my life hundreds of times. And she did that right away from day 1.

I was scared of trying therapy again because of failed connections to other therapists, but I am happy to have found Dana. ◡̈

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