Dana Hartshorn, BACP

Counsellor Dana Hartshorn is a BACP member with four years' practice in the United Kingdom. She works with stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship concerns, and supports people facing identity and gender questions, eating difficulties, trauma and attachment issues. Sessions are described in straightforward terms and aim to help people make sense of what they are facing.

Dana blends client-centred ways of working with cognitive behavioural ideas and attachment-based thinking. That means conversations focus on what matters to the person, look at helpful and unhelpful patterns, and pay attention to past relationships that still shape current reactions. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas where they fit the client's aims.

In a session she encourages practical steps alongside listening. Conversations might include noticing thoughts and feelings, testing out small changes, and practising ways of relating differently. She pays attention to body image, self-esteem and difficulties such as self-harm or compassion fatigue when these come up.

Her work also covers issues such as gender dysphoria, non-monogamous relationships and problems that can follow military service. She has an interest in eco-therapy and sometimes brings themes about the wider environment into discussions if clients find that helpful.

Sessions are described as collaborative. People are invited to set goals and try approaches that suit their life. The emphasis is on clear, practical steps and building understanding over time.

How Dana uses talked therapies online