Dana Rivera, LCSW

Dana Rivera is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) whose clinical focus deepened after a nearly decade-long personal experience with fertility challenges, pregnancy loss, and postpartum identity shifts. That lived experience shaped a professional path centered on holding space for people navigating reproductive loss, caregiving fatigue, midlife transitions, and the complex emotions that follow major life changes.

Dana works with women, birthing people, and LGBTQ+ families through fertility journeys, pregnancy loss, postpartum adjustments, and related identity shifts, offering support for relationship transitions, caregiver stress, and the sometimes quiet process of rediscovering one’s sense of self. Her approach blends practical support with empathic attention, recognizing that healing often occurs gradually rather than on a fixed timetable.

Sessions with Dana can bring sudden clarity or feel tender and unfinished, reflecting the full range of human experience. She creates a space where grief, frustration, and hope can coexist, and where processing, learning, and occasional laughter are all part of the work. Dana walks alongside clients with care and compassion, helping them explore goals, cope with stress and anxiety, and move forward at a pace that feels right for them.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Accessible Online Support

Dana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that include skills-based interventions focused on coping, stress reduction, and anxiety management. These practical strategies teach tools for emotional regulation, problem solving, and managing day-to-day overwhelm to support clearer functioning and improved coping.

She also integrates trauma-informed and grief-sensitive work that helps people process loss, reproductive trauma, and identity shifts with care. This approach emphasizes pacing, validation, and exploring meaning while attending to the emotional impact of life changes.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Dana partners with each person to determine which techniques align with their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting methods as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and levels of comfort. These formats make it possible to engage in consistent therapeutic work from home, between appointments, or while navigating caregiving and medical timelines, supporting continuity of care with licensed professionals and therapists who tailor sessions to each client.