About Daniel
Daniel Sigel is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of professional experience. He practices in Maine and helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and depression. He speaks English and aims to make the first step feel manageable for anyone who is nervous about starting therapy.
Daniel's approach is warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental. He treats people with respect, sensitivity, and empathy while encouraging them to use their own strengths.
Background and approach
He sees clients as the experts on their own lives and focuses on building a comfortable space to talk through fears and goals. He blends several methods to match each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. That includes client-centered conversation, cognitive-behavioral strategies, trauma-aware practices, solution-focused steps, and motivational interviewing.
Sessions typically aim to spot negative cycles and find practical ways to reduce their hold. Daniel emphasizes short- and long-term goals. Early work often centers on symptom relief for panic, social anxiety, or mood struggles.
Later sessions can focus on deeper patterns like avoidant behavior, emptiness, or issues tied to military service and life purpose. Therapy with him involves active work between sessions. He offers guidance, exercises, and gentle challenges to help people change habits that cause pain.
He acknowledges that therapy is hard work and encourages persistence toward a more manageable day-to-day life.
How these approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience, helping them feel heard while they identify what matters most. It works well for people who want a compassionate space to talk and find their own path forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, panic, and mood issues where people want clear steps and tools to try between sessions.
Motivational Interviewing is a brief, collaborative way to build motivation for change by exploring a person's values and ambivalence. It pairs well with other approaches when someone is unsure about taking a next step.Scheduling begins with a conversation about goals. The therapist works together with the person to decide which approach or combination will fit their needs and preferences. That choice can shift as work progresses, and treatment plans are adjusted based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full-session experience, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing brief contact between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and keep continuity when plans change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Avoidant personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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