About Daniella
Daniella Fernandez is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 13 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, or struggles with addiction. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people notice what matters to them and take manageable steps forward.
Daniella uses approaches that focus on how people connect with others and with themselves. She listens closely and offers observations that can help interrupt unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to the person's immediate needs. She often brings attachment-based ideas into conversations, looking at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used when practical tools can reduce anxiety or change day-to-day thinking that feeds low mood.
Emotionally-focused and client-centered ways of working inform how she pays attention to feelings in the room. Daniella also addresses issues like body image, guilt and shame, isolation, and trouble with communication. She supports people who are trying to find purpose, rebuild self-esteem, or move past panic attacks and mood swings.
Treatment plans are shaped around a person's goals and life circumstances. Based in Washington, Daniella emphasizes respect for each person's choices. She aims to help clients build clearer patterns, stronger self-awareness, and more satisfying ways of relating to themselves and others.
Approach-driven care for online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how relationships shape feelings and reactions. In online sessions this might mean talking about patterns that show up in close relationships and experimenting with small changes to connection and boundaries. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical tools for anxiety and panic. Techniques can include tracking thoughts, testing beliefs, and practicing short behavioral experiments between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try approaches that match those goals and preferences. That process can involve mixing methods so therapy feels useful and relevant to day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy schedule. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, written reflection, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and other responsibilities while keeping the focus on progress and practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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