Swell Therapy, LLC

03/03/2025

Do you know someone who needs SWELL? 🌊

Share our therapy services flyer with someone you think might benefit!! DM or download our PDF from SwellTherapy.org

Our services fill up FAST, so don’t wait 😎

Now, you can book a complimentary consultation right from our website!

Visit: SwellTherapy.org
Contact: Dana@SwellTherapy.org

03/01/2025

SURF THERAPY 2025 🤙🏼

ANCHOR: An 8 week program designed to generate movement. Feeling stuck? Stressed? Can’t find the answer to a big question in your life? This program will help you uncover something you haven’t been able to see. By connecting your brain and body, we can help you access parts of you, you may not know are there.

UNLEASH: This concierge service is for 1 on 1 sessions. Designed with flexibility in mind. Many of you asked for this option last year and we heard you!!!

MOMENTUM: Elite surf travel.
Who doesn’t want some warm water swell therapy? 😉

All programs are run by a licensed mental health professional.

Visit: SwellTherapy.org
Call: 609-293-7383
Email: Dana@SwellTherapy.org

01/22/2025

Mood.

Anyone else dreaming of someplace warmer today? 🙋🏻‍♀️

What’s your top fantasy surf destination?
Want to travel with us to surf? 🔥

Here’s a clip from our day at Fiji 🇫🇯 2015.

09/01/2024

Join us on Friday, October 18th for our Surf Retreat.
Located in Harvey Cedars, NJ.
All level surfers welcome!

Sign up @ SwellTherapy.org and click the "Surf Therapy" tab. Fill in the form and we'll be in touch!

08/24/2024

A DAY TO GROW 🌱
With &

Surround yourself with greatness.
Great People. Minds. Hearts.

Look to grow every day.
Take note of who you are surrounding yourself with.
Do they challenge you? Do they make you better? Do you leave their company feeling fueled & inspired, or perhaps drained and empty.

Leadership is an ever evolving challenge (if you’re doing it right😉). There’s no time for complacency. You will be tried and tested. And you would be well served to keep looking for inspiration, tools, and most important… GREAT people.

08/13/2024

“I FINALLY HAVE CLOSURE”, “I LEARNED HOW TO LET GO”, “I DECIDED I WANT TO LIVE”, and “I CAN’T IMAGINE A BETTER WAY TO LEARN HOW TO SURF” kinda summer.

That’s a wrap! Surf Therapy 2024 is complete 💥

What an overwhelming joy it has been to bring this program forward this summer. We had so many BADASS clients who CRUSHED it this summer.

Missed our 8 week surf therapy program?
Come check out our SURF THERAPY RETREAT.
Friday, October 18th. Harvey Cedars, NJ.
Submit interest @ SwellTherapy.org

06/04/2024

COME SEE US AT FOUNDERS DAY! 🎇🎆

We’ve enlisted a special guest to join the Swell Therapy table this year. Our friend Megan will be painting faces with a custom ocean theme 🐠🧜‍♀️

Come by and say hello! Ask all your questions. Have a little fun playing games with us. Get information & sign up for our summer programs. WE CAN’T WAIT TO MEET YOU 🤗

Founders Day: Saturday, June 8th. 4pm-dusk @ Doc Cranmer Sports Complex.

05/20/2024

Proud moment!! ☀️

While I try to keep my Swell business separate from my role in the hospital, this was a moment that I wanted to share!! During hospital week, one of my team members nominated me for The Sunshine Award. And I was selected as the winner 🙂.

This award is for leaders who:
• Conduct themselves in a professional manner by managing their team up.
• Exhibits the ability to connect and develop relationships that support a high level of trust and credibility.
• Demonstrates authentic communication skills guided by compassion and empathy.
• Effectively manages change through partnership, collaboration and positive communication.
• Empowers, challenges and inspires their team to reach their highest potential and motivates others through practice and values.
• Acts as a strong advocate for the people we serve, our staff, programs and/or services.

I share all this not to toot my own horn, but to share how meaningful it is to receive this recognition.

One of the services I provide at Swell Therapy is the Galt Academy- a leadership and team building program. I am showing you here I am not another program jumping on the leadership bandwagon. I am walking the talk. I have something special here to offer you and your team. I know how to get you there.

I am fortunate to have been lead and mentored by some incredible people and have the opportunity to put their strategies into play- while building on them. I have attended many trainings, read books, and studied the art of leadership. Showing up. Putting it on the line. Long hours. Getting in the trenches with your team. Building a culture of Accountability and Grace. What I like to call “having a heart and a brain”.

Being a leader means giving more of yourself than you take. You don’t ask of others what you couldn’t or wouldn’t do yourself. Understanding you need your team just as much as they need you. Forging through difficult moments with faith instead of fear.

And that’s exactly what the last year was for me and my team. Thank you Mary Beth.

Join me this year for the Galt Academy Program at Swell. I promise we will deliver. 👊🏼

05/08/2024

Thank you Inside the Tide Podcast for inviting me on your podcast to share about my Surf Therapy program!!

We got to chat about surfing as a way of healing.
Hope you enjoy!

In this episode, I have on the show Dana Forrest, a social worker and founder of Swell Therapy. Dana brings to the table a wealth of experience, having worke...

04/22/2024

As a narrative therapist, I help people re-write their story. In this video, I invite you into my story. A story of relentless searching for answers. A story of heartbreak turned into triumph. A story of scouring the earth to find answers to life's big questions.

Adele writes:
"Throw your soul through every open door
Count your blessings to find what you look for
Turn my sorrow into treasured gold
You pay me back in kind and reap just what you've sown"

I am someone who has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars searching for meaning. For healing. For "IT". Well, I'm happy to share with you that you do not have to spend the same amount of money that I did to find it. More important than money, I have invested my time over the last 20 years putting in THE WORK. I have put in long hours honing in my craft to be able to lay my service at your feet.

JOIN ME THIS YEAR TO RE-WRITE YOUR STORY. Don't wait.

Visit: SwellTherapy.org
Call me: 609-293-7383
Email me: DanaForrestLCSW@Gmail.com



https://youtu.be/cgAlOIxk_1s?feature=shared

As a narrative therapist, I help people re-write their story. In this video, I invite you into my story. A story of relentless searching for answers. A story...

03/31/2024

Welcome to Swell Therapy, LLC !! I am Dana Forrest, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the proud owner of Swell Therapy.

Over the last few years, the need for QUALITY mental health services has grown exponentially. I decided to open Swell Therapy in February 2023 to offer services for "regular people" looking for somewhere to turn.

In my private therapy practice, I have a niche for helping 16-24 year olds who are achievers, student athletes, good people... who need a place to "figure it out". I provide in- person, individual therapy in my office--- located in Manahawkin, NJ.

For Summer 2024, I look to expand our SURF THERAPY program. This is an 8-week program for kids, tweens, teens & adults. This mind/body connection will create a faster, more meaningful approach to healing.

Participants who would benefit most from SURF THERAPY are those who are "going through something"... feeling stuck, having issues adjusting to a life change. Maybe you've tried to figure out a situation on your own, or maybe even with a therapist... but you just can't seem to work through it. We welcome those new to surfing!

Through the GALT ACADEMY- I offer a 1-day Leadership Program. This experiential process takes athletic teams, school groups and professional teams through the pillars of leadership. Join us for a FUN & meaningful day!!

Check out our website @ SwellTherapy.org.

03/31/2024

Have questions about SURF THERAPY?

Join Dana Forrest, LCSW for a special webinar via Zoom on Wednesday, April 10th @ 10am to have a discussion and answer your questions: https://bit.ly/Surf-therapy-LBI