Dayna Pitzer , LISW, LICSW

Dayna Pitzer is a licensed social worker in Ohio with 18 years of clinical experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and life transitions. She holds LISW and LICSW clinical social work licenses, which reflect advanced training in assessment and therapeutic practice. Over the course of her career she has worked in inpatient psychiatric care, crisis intervention, hospice settings, and the juvenile justice system, with a shift in 2016 to focused work with teenagers involved in the justice system and their families.

Her hospice experience deepened a commitment to grief and end-of-life counseling, a path that was reinforced by personal caregiving when her mother faced ovarian cancer and passed in 2019. After taking time away from private practice to focus on healing, she returned to clinical work in 2020 and transitioned to full-time private practice through the platform in 2022. Dayna also brings experience with chronic medical illness, relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and a broad range of emotional and behavioral concerns.

Dayna uses client-centered methods alongside approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people build coping skills, manage emotions, and navigate major life changes. She emphasizes practical strategies and collaborative care to help individuals find greater resilience and peace of mind while working toward their goals.

Approaches and Benefits of Online Therapy with Dayna

Dayna integrates client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening, empathy, and building a strong therapeutic relationship to help people explore their feelings and goals in a supportive environment. This approach is useful for many concerns, including life transitions and relationship issues.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a practical method that helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is part of her approach for teaching emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness when emotions feel overwhelming.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Dayna will work with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and adapt strategies so therapy fits the individual rather than expecting the individual to fit a single method.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue care from different locations. For many people, these options increase accessibility and make consistent therapeutic work more manageable while maintaining the same focus on progress and skill-building that in-person therapy provides.