About Daniel
Dr. Daniel Ringhoff is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, and related struggles. He writes and speaks plainly with clients, focusing on clear goals and small steps forward.
He brings 17 years of experience to sessions and aims to make therapy feel practical and usable. He uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. Sessions often include straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and acceptance strategies are used to reduce struggle with difficult feelings and increase what matters most. Attachment-informed ideas guide how he looks at relationship patterns. That helps when people struggle with intimacy, communication, or fears of abandonment.
He also uses client-centered techniques to listen closely and shape sessions around each person's priorities. Dr. Ringhoff has worked with people dealing with trauma, grief, parenting stress, sleep problems, career shifts, and compassion fatigue.
He pays attention to how life events and co-occurring issues affect everyday coping. His style is warm and respectful while still inviting new perspectives. Practical planning is central to his work.
Together with each client he clarifies goals, tries small experiments, and builds routines that support change. People who want direct, goal-focused therapy with room for personal values often find his way of working helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Dr. Ringhoff uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. CBT offers clear, practical exercises and experiments that translate well to video or phone sessions for issues like anxiety, depression, and sleep trouble.He also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which blends mindfulness with values-based action. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck and then take steps toward what matters, useful when coping with stress, grief, or addiction.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. He will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose techniques to try and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you work face-to-face when practice and exercises benefit from visual interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are available for brief exchanges, written reflection, or ongoing check-ins between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida, California
- Languages
- English
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