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DANA ZAREDINI
Associate Clinical Social Worker #113129
Supervised by Lindsay Rosser, LMFT #87065
Dana attended Cal State University Long Beach for her undergraduate degree in Child Development and Family Studies and obtained her master's degree from the University of Southern California’s Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.
Dana considers herself a holistic and integrative therapist who is caring, empathetic, patient, and client-centered. She uses humor and her own lived experience to build relationships with her clients. Dana believes that therapy works best when the client feels safe and secure in the relationship with their therapist.
She offers her clients opportunities to learn about self-care, mindfulness, meditation, and how to lessen the impacts of negative self-talk. Mindfulness can be achieved through different forms such as focusing on the present-moment and non-judgmentally accepting your internal experiences. Dana uses mindfulness and has personally experienced a decrease in her racing thoughts and stress level. She practices noticing when her mind wanders, listens to her body and how she feels moment to moment. Mindfulness is a great practice for clients of all ages to decrease anxiety, stress, improve concentration and overall performance at school and work.
Dana is trained in Eye Movement & Desensitization and Reprocesing Therapy (EMDR), Motivational Interviewing, Problem Solving Therapy, Solution Based Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She is interested in Somatic Therapy (mind-body), Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Play Therapy, Infant Mental Health, Sensorimotor Therapy and overall providing trauma-informed and trauma-focused care to all of her clients. Dana’s goal is to help her clients feel empowered and provide hope they can heal from any painful past or present experiences in their lives.
Dana works with children, adults, and families. She helps her clients learn to cope and heal from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, self-harming, suicidal ideation, PTSD, trauma, abuse (sexual/psychological/emotional/physical), neglect and abandonment. She also enjoys working with adult children of alcoholics, grief and loss, and caregiver stress. See below for a full list of issues she can help you with!
QUALIFICATIONS
SPECIALTIES
TREATMENT APPROACH
TRAINING
Cognitive Behavioral
Eclectic
Humanistic
Integrative
Mindfulness-Based
Motivational Interviewing
Person-Centered
Solution Focused
Somatic
Strength-Based
Trauma-Focused
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Adoption
Alcohol Abuse
Anxiety
Child or Adolescent
Chronic Illness
Coping Skills
Depression
Domestic Abuse
Domestic Violence
Family Conflict
Grief
Oppositional Defiance
Peer Relationships
Relationship Issues
School Issues
Self-Esteem
Self-Harming
Sexual Abuse
Spirituality
Sports Performance
Stress
Substance Abuse
Suicidal Ideation
Teen Violence
Trauma & PTSD
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
Somatic (mind/body) Therapy
Play Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Motivational Interviewing
Solution Focused
Problem Solving Therapy
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ALLYSHIPS
Body Positivity
Immuno-disorders
Lesbian Allied
Little Person Allied
Non-Binary Allied
Racial Justice Allied
Sex Worker Allied
Single Mothers
Transgender Allied
Vegan Allied
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