Dana Benton, LICSW

Dana Benton is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 17 years of experience supporting people through grief, trauma, identity concerns, and major life changes. She approaches therapy as a collaborative partnership in which the person seeking help is regarded as the expert on their own life while the clinician helps to clarify goals and create meaningful, strength-based treatment. Dana emphasizes practical strategies alongside deeper exploration, drawing on clients own resilience and insight to move toward more fulfilling and purpose-driven living.

Her clinical interests include grief and loss, self-esteem and confidence, career challenges, compassion fatigue, and coping with life transitions. She also works with attachment concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, immigration-related issues, questions about life purpose, midlife transitions, mood disorders, postpartum depression, post-traumatic stress, multicultural concerns, prejudice and discrimination, and Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Dana integrates multiple evidence-informed approaches to tailor care to each person’s needs, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She offers services in English and practices in Massachusetts. Dana aims to support and empower individuals as they take the courageous steps toward positive change and greater well-being.