- Strengths focused
- Panic and anxiety
- Practical skills
About Dina
Dina Derilas is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict, trauma, and depression. She emphasizes a respectful, strengths-based approach and encourages people to notice the abilities they already have. Dina presents therapy as a collaborative process and offers steady support for those ready to make a change.
With four years of clinical experience as an LMHC in New York, she draws on practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address common struggles. Sessions focus on clear goals, steady skill-building, and reducing symptoms that get in the way of daily life. Dina often helps people manage panic attacks and panic disorder by teaching strategies to reduce acute symptoms and build confidence in stressful moments.
She also supports people working through control issues, separation and divorce, and the emotional impact of trauma and abuse. Dina pays attention to how guilt, shame, and isolation affect choices and relationships. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, with room for reflection and learning.
Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through immediate concerns and plan practical next steps. Dina encourages small experiments between sessions to try new ways of coping. She helps people identify values and purpose as part of longer term healing.
Therapy begins by listening closely to each person’s story and identifying a few manageable goals. From there she helps clients develop tools to reduce distress, improve relationships, and move toward a more balanced life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many people benefit from practical, evidence-based techniques that teach skills and reduce symptoms. One helpful approach focuses on teaching breathing, grounding, and exposure-style strategies to reduce panic attacks and anxiety symptoms. This approach helps people notice triggers, practice tolerating uncomfortable sensations, and regain a sense of control over anxious reactions. Another common technique emphasizes building coping skills and problem-solving for stress, relationship strain, and depressive symptoms. That work tends to include setting clear goals, trying new behaviors between sessions, and tracking small improvements.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process includes reviewing what helps, adjusting methods over time, and checking in about progress.
This profile does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, remove commuting time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people continue care when they travel or live far from local providers. Licensed professionals and therapists often adapt skill practice and homework to work well in online sessions so progress stays consistent.
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Primary focus
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Experience
4+ years
Listed in
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
Dina supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and depression. She also focuses on panic disorder and panic attacks and related issues like guilt, shame, and isolation.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is collaborative and strengths-based, with practical tools and clear goals. Sessions emphasize skill-building and manageable steps rather than long lectures.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has four years of professional experience working as a mental health therapist. That background includes work with anxiety, trauma-related concerns, and relationship difficulties.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the LMHC credential and practices in New York. The profile uses the credential exactly as provided.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography did not specify session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking to ensure they meet your needs.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.