About Daniel
Daniel Echols, LPC offers calm, practical support for people facing anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, and major life changes. He helps with relationship and family concerns, parenting struggles, self-esteem, grief, career questions, and issues related to identity and purpose. His approach is straightforward and affirming, aimed at helping people find direction and relief.
He listens first. Sessions focus on what feels most pressing and on small steps that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Daniel draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered methods to help people notice what matters and act on it. He also uses attachment-based ideas and emotion-focused work to address relationship patterns and deeper hurts. Daniel describes his outlook as open to spiritual and faith perspectives, and he invites whatever beliefs a person brings into the room.
He combines established techniques with creative exercises and honest conversation. That mix is used to uncover patterns, try new practices, and support clearer choices. With 23 years as a licensed professional counselor in Texas, he brings steady clinical experience without jargon.
Sessions are practical and aimed at real-life change rather than theory alone. He talks through coping strategies, communication skills, and steps toward healthier habits. People who come wanting clearer direction, less reactive stress, or help with addictive behaviors or family conflict will find a calm, patient guide.
The work centers on listening to what matters to the client and building tools to move forward.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with practical exercises to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, which can help with trust, jealousy, and family conflict.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust as you go. Together you decide what feels most useful and what to focus on in sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how you meet. Video calls let you work face to face from wherever you are, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat provides a shorter check-in option, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to get consistent support while juggling daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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