About Daniel
Daniel Zarate Lustre is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. He focuses on practical steps to ease day-to-day struggles like sleep problems, low mood, and coping after loss. Daniel writes and speaks in plain terms and offers support in English and Spanish.
He approaches sessions believing each person knows their own story and has strengths to draw on. He listens first, then helps identify small, doable changes.
Background and approach
Therapy may include looking at unhelpful thoughts, building new coping skills, or working through painful memories at a steady pace. Daniel uses Client-Centered Therapy to make space for what matters most to the client. He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot patterns in thinking that keep stress and anxiety active.
When useful, he incorporates psychodynamic ideas to examine recurring relationship themes and early influences on feelings and behavior. Sessions tend to be straightforward and focused on what clients want to change. Daniel can help with grief, compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, chronic illness, communication problems, and issues around money and life purpose.
He also supports people dealing with abandonment, midlife shifts, and forgiveness challenges. Daniel has eight years of clinical experience working in California. He frames goals with clients and tracks progress so sessions stay relevant and useful.
To begin, he asks a few questions to understand each person's situation and priorities.
How Daniel’s Approaches Work Online
Daniel uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a space where the client's concerns guide each session. This approach focuses on listening, validating feelings, and helping people clarify what they want to change. It is useful for anxiety, grief, and feeling overwhelmed.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavioral experiments to reduce worry and improve sleep and mood.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Daniel will discuss different methods and adapt them based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set clear, measurable goals and check progress as therapy goes on.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when internet bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for short check-ins or when time is tight. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or health demands.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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