About Danielle
Danielle (Danni) Helms helps people facing anxiety and related concerns find steadier ground. She focuses on practical skills for managing panic, obsessive thoughts, mood struggles, stress, and addictive behaviors. Danni writes plans with each person she sees and keeps conversations direct and respectful.
She uses clear language so people can try new tools between sessions. Danni is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, licensed in South Carolina and North Carolina.
Background and approach
She has nine years of experience in counseling. Her work centers on helping clients build coping skills, increase motivation, and restore confidence after trauma, loss, or difficult life changes. Sessions are collaborative and goal oriented.
Danni draws from client-centered methods to listen and reflect what matters most to the person. She adds cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thought patterns and dialed-in skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions and urges. She also uses mindfulness exercises and motivational interviewing to strengthen commitment to change.
People leave sessions with specific steps to practice and measure progress. Danni emphasizes empathy, respect, and practical support while people work toward recovery and healthier routines. Her approach fits people dealing with grief, family stress, codependency, dissociation, eating concerns, panic attacks, self-harm thoughts, and questions about life purpose.
She accepts international clients and provides care in English from her South Carolina practice.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy starts by putting your concerns first and matching the pace of work to what feels manageable. It involves listening, reflecting, and building goals together so sessions focus on what matters most to you.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches clear steps to change thinking patterns and behaviors that feed anxiety, panic, and depressive moods. It often includes homework like thought records or behavior experiments to test new ideas between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers practical skills for handling intense emotions, urges, and relationship stress. It includes strategies for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and better communication when feelings run high.
Finding the right mix of these approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and preferences, and will adjust plans as progress is tracked.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let therapists and clients work face to face when a fuller conversation is needed. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter, flexible options for quick coaching or between-session support. These options help people practice skills in real life and stay connected to care when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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