About Danica
Danica Bokal is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with eight years of experience in the mental health field. She helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, job changes, grief, and other life adjustments. Danica is attentive to concerns around identity and offers support for LGBTQ+ issues and gender-specific needs.
She aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where clients can work toward clearer goals.
Background and approach
Danica meets each person where they are and learns what matters to them before suggesting steps forward. She blends practical teaching with talk therapy so clients can practice new skills between sessions. Her style is both empathic and active - she listens closely but also suggests exercises and strategies to try.
Common tools Danica draws on include cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and attachment-informed work to improve relationships. She also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help with strong emotions and distress tolerance.
Past work has involved helping people manage addictive behaviors, cope with trauma, and navigate major life transitions like career shifts and relationship changes. Danica emphasizes skill-building and gradual change so progress feels manageable. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled online by clients in Florida and internationally.
She accepts a range of session formats so people can choose what fits their life and routine.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small committed steps toward those values while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through clear exercises and practice between sessions. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and offers ways to build healthier interactions and trust in relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Danica will discuss options with each person, test what feels useful, and adjust methods based on goals and preferences. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone works well if bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and chat or messaging can fit into a busy day for quick support and between-session work. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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