ROBINSON TOWNSHIP, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE
Dana Werner, LMSW
“Growth begins when we give ourselves permission to be human.”
Dana Werner is a Licensed Master Social Worker at CPA Counseling’s Robinson Township office, also seeing clients by secure telehealth across Pennsylvania. With more than ten years in mental health, she works with teens, young adults, and adults on anxiety, depression, trauma, people-pleasing and boundaries, emotional abuse and controlling relationships, codependency, life transitions, and self-esteem.
WHO DANA WORKS WITH
Who she’s for
Dana works with teens, young adults, and adults, individually. Ten-plus years in the field, and a stated preference for the people who are functioning fine and quietly not okay.
why work with Dana
Show up exactly as you are
Dana’s starting premise is that therapy should be a place you can arrive without first arranging yourself into something presentable. No performance, no edited version, no fear of being judged for the thing you have not said out loud yet.
HOW DANA WORKS
Nine approaches, chosen for you
Dana combines cognitive behavioral work, DBT and ACT, trauma-informed care, and person-centered approaches, meeting each client where they are rather than running the same sequence on everyone.
CONDITIONS TREATED
What Dana treats – who Dana sees
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma
- Family Issues
- Emotional Abuse
- Controlling Relationships & Gaslighting
- Life Transitions
- Codependency
- Women’s Mental Health
- Workplace Stress
- Self-Esteem
For people-pleasing
Boundaries and self-worth — the work she enjoys most
“Growth begins when we give ourselves permission to be human.”
CARE PHILOSOPHY
Down to earth. And still serious work.
Dana puts a strong emphasis on rapport, and not as a warm-up — a trusting relationship is, in her view, the foundation that makes meaningful change possible at all. She wants clients comfortable, heard, and understood before anything harder gets asked of them.
Her approach is down-to-earth and conversational. Therapy does not always have to feel serious or intimidating, and she leaves room for humor, honesty, and real conversation along the way. That is a stylistic choice, not a lowering of the bar.
The work itself is collaborative and practical: identifying unhelpful thought patterns, developing coping skills, establishing boundaries, and creating changes that hold. The aim is a space where you gain insight, feel capable, and move toward the version of yourself you are actually after.
ABOUT DANA
A place to show up without editing yourself
Dana Werner is a Licensed Master Social Worker with more than ten years of experience in the mental health field. She is passionate about helping people navigate challenges, manage anxiety and stress, build confidence, and develop healthier relationships — and she believes therapy should be a place where you can show up exactly as you are, without fear of judgment.
Her approach is down-to-earth, compassionate, and conversational. She places strong emphasis on building rapport and genuine connection, because a trusting therapeutic relationship is the foundation for meaningful change. She wants clients to feel comfortable, heard, and understood, and she thinks therapy does not always have to feel serious or intimidating — there is room for humor, honesty, and real conversation along the way.
Dana uses a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma-informed care, and person-centered approaches to meet each client where they are. She works collaboratively to identify unhelpful thought patterns, develop healthy coping skills, establish boundaries, and create positive, lasting changes.
She especially enjoys working with people who struggle with people-pleasing, setting boundaries, self-esteem, or feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns. She holds an MSW from Concord University and sees clients at the Robinson Township office and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Years in Practice
Robinson Twp & Telehealth
Boundaries & Self-Esteem
People-pleasing and patterns
Personalized Care Plans
No program commitments required
CONDITION GUIDE
Therapy guides from Dana Werner
Mental Health
What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Parasocial Connection
Why millions feel they truly know someone they’ve never met — the psychology of parasocial connection, when it’s comforting, and when it’s telling you something.
Anxiety
When Anxiety Starts Making the Rules
Anxiety rarely announces itself as anxiety — it arrives as good judgment, feeling like being careful, responsible, or thinking ahead, and by the time you notice, it may have been making your decisions for years. OCD is mostly internal: intrusive thoughts, mental checking, rumination, reassurance-seeking. Both respond well to treatment.
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