Dana Brouca, LCSW

Dana Brouca is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices in New Jersey. She brings ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Dana focuses on practical support that helps people move toward clearer goals and day-to-day relief.

She centers sessions on the person in front of her, listening to each person’s story and building on their strengths. Dana uses client-centered methods combined with cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing to help people identify patterns and try new strategies. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on what feels useful in daily life.

Dana has worked across concerns that include relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, and career questions. She also supports people facing caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, cancer-related concerns, financial stress, and veteran and armed forces issues. Her practice includes attention to mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and compassion fatigue.

People can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and progress is reviewed regularly. Dana explains options plainly and helps people choose approaches that fit their needs and rhythms. She aims to make therapy practical and accessible for everyday problems.

Sessions are conducted in English and take place in New Jersey. To begin, the directory process matches people to Dana through a short questionnaire and scheduling system. The subscription used for sessions can be canceled at any time.

How Dana’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, reflecting, and following the person’s lead to set meaningful goals. Online sessions using this approach let people talk through what matters most and shape the pace and topics of work around their needs.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and tests new ways of responding. In remote sessions CBT can be used to try practical experiments between meetings, track patterns, and build small behavior changes that add up over time.

Mindfulness therapy brings attention to present moment experience and helps reduce reactivity. Online sessions can introduce simple mindfulness practices and coach people through using them during stressful moments or routine activities.

Finding the right approach is part of the work and Dana treats it as a collaboration. She will talk through options, try techniques, and adjust plans based on a person’s goals, comfort, and day-to-day life. The first sessions typically focus on what a person wants to change and which methods feel most useful.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm the available options when you schedule. Online care can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, shorten travel time, and allow check-ins from different locations. Ask about the current session arrangements during the matching and scheduling steps so you can choose what fits your routine.