About Daniel
Daniel Laluna is a licensed clinical psychologist practicing in Illinois. He brings 13 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, sleep problems, grief, low self-esteem, and challenges linked to attention differences. Daniel aims to create a straightforward, supportive space where concerns can be named and practical steps can be tried.
He uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts methods to each person's needs. Daniel emphasizes attachment and relationships as important to healing and everyday functioning.
Background and approach
He often blends expressive approaches like play and arts with insight-oriented work to help people access feelings and try new ways of coping. Daniel trained at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned a Doctor of Psychology degree, PsyD, from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology with a concentration in child and adolescent mental health.
That background shaped his focus on development, communication, and relational patterns. Over the years he has worked with people facing a broad set of concerns related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, attachment differences, autism and Asperger syndrome, avoidant personality traits, blended family issues, and body image.
He also supports those coping with cancer, chronic pain, caregiver stress, and co-occurring conditions. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Daniel approaches therapy as a collaborative process that centers the individual’s goals and daily life.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Daniel uses a mix of evidence-based techniques and expressive work adapted for online sessions. One common approach focuses on teaching practical skills for anxiety and stress - identifying triggers, building coping strategies, and practicing them during sessions. This helps people reduce immediate distress and improve daily functioning.Another strand emphasizes attachment and relationship work, looking at patterns in how people connect and respond to others. That approach helps when problems stem from early relationships or ongoing communication difficulties. He also integrates expressive tools such as art or play elements when useful, which can make emotions easier to access and talk about during a session.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client review goals, try different methods, and adjust based on what helps most. This collaborative process aims to match techniques to needs and preferences rather than applying a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits: video calls allow face-to-face conversations when needed, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to use different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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