Dayna PitzerLISW, LICSW

Dayna Pitzer is a licensed social worker with 18 years of clinical experience. She holds LISW and LICSW credentials and practices from Ohio. Dayna has worked across inpatient psychiatric care, hospice settings, crisis intervention, and juvenile services, and brings that range into each session.

She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and low self-esteem. She also supports people coping with life changes, grief, trauma, parenting challenges, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and relationship issues. Dayna uses straightforward language and practical steps in her work.

Her background includes time supporting teens involved with the juvenile justice system and caring roles in hospice, where grief and end-of-life issues became central to her practice. Personal experience with a family cancer loss influenced the way she approaches long-term healing and caregiving concerns.

Dayna integrates Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness, and Motivational Interviewing into sessions. She aims to help clients build coping tools, improve communication, and make gradual changes that fit their lives.

People who prefer clear, collaborative sessions often connect well with her style. She takes a practical approach - listening first, then suggesting strategies to try between meetings. The focus is on steps that can help in daily life rather than on jargon or long explanations.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Dayna blends Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in ways that fit each person. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters to the individual so they feel understood and heard. CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors together and helps people try different actions to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhelpful patterns. DBT brings skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling interpersonal conflict.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dayna will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean trying CBT techniques one week and emotion-regulation skills from DBT the next, then checking in to see what helps most.

Confirm the current session options before booking so you know how meetings will be held. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow quick check-ins between in-person commitments. It can also allow sessions to focus on practicing skills in the context of everyday life, so tools learned in a meeting can be applied soon after.