Counseling to You: Dana Backstrom, LMFT, LPCC

Specialties

Changing Relationships, Changing Lives, Restoring Hope!

Welcome and thank you for spending a few moments of your time with me. Changes to your health, relationships and life circumstances can throw you and your family out-​of-​kilter leading to stress, grief, anxiety, or depression. I can help you make changes «in» yourself to adjust to changes «outside» yourself.

On the other hand, you may desperately want to change something about yourself but are feeling paralyzed, hopeless and lacking in willpower. If so, you’re not alone. I will walk beside you and give you the tools and encouragement you need to make the changes you want.

I provide counseling and psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families. While I have a general practice, I specialize in providing depression treatment, anxiety treatment, and relationship counseling as well as helping people with self-​esteem, relationship, and work stress issues and people with chronic health conditions. I have a passion for working with mature adults and aging families in transition.

We can meet in the comfort and privacy of my Mountain View office, or I offer in-​home appointments.

I encourage you to visit my website for more information and to schedule a free, 20-​minute phone consultation. I look forward to speaking with you and helping in any way I can!

History

Established in 2011.

I’ve been providing counseling and psychotherapy services and helping individuals, couples and families since 2005 and opened my private practice in 2011.

My diverse clinical background includes work with adults, adolescents, children, families and groups in outpatient clinic, home-​based and school-​based settings and I have extensive experience providing trauma treatment, addiction counseling and substance abuse treatment for adults and adolescents. I also provide clinical supervision to Marriage and Family Therapist Interns for their licensure. I enjoy working with people of all ages, cultures and orientations.

If you, or someone you love is struggling with addiction, anxiety, depression, relationship issues or work stress please pick-​up the phone and schedule a free, 20-​minte phone consultation today.

Meet the Business Owner

Dana B.

Business Owner

I am licensed by the state of California as both a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and hold a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University.

One of my main goals is to make quality counseling services as convenient, accessible and client-​friendly as possible. Towards this end, I meet clients in my office like most therapists and also offer unique and innovative approaches to delivering services (i.e. In-​Home and On-​Site Counseling and Walk n’ Talk Therapy).

My style can best be described as honest, interactive, thoughtful and non-​judgmental.

Quite simply, the goal of our work together is to help you achieve YOUR goals — for many that means, first and foremost, finding relief. Call today for your free 20-​minute phone consultation. I look forward to talking with you!