About Danielle
Danielle DePalma is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with 22 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, or who are struggling with grief, depression, and life changes. Danielle aims to meet each person where they are and to build practical steps forward.
She trained in psychology at Cornell University and completed a master of social work at Columbia University.
Background and approach
Over two decades she has worked with many concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and adoption-related matters, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people coping with caregiver stress, cancer-related challenges, and career strain. Danielle uses several approaches to match the needs of each person.
She draws on client-centered methods to prioritize what matters most to the individual. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice patterns and try different responses. She also integrates EMDR and DBT when those methods fit the situation.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. Sessions focus on practical tools, clearer communication, and realistic goals. She pays attention to family of origin issues, attachment patterns, and blended family dynamics when those come up.
Danielle also supports people facing issues like ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, codependency, and intimacy-related struggles. She works with people navigating fertility, divorce and separation, domestic violence histories, and commitment or control difficulties. Starting therapy begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first meeting.
Danielle prefers to tailor the plan to each person's needs and to move at a pace that feels manageable.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist helps clarify priorities and supports the client's own goals, which can be useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thoughts and behaviors that fuel distress and then tests small changes. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for emotion regulation and managing intense reactions, which can be helpful for overwhelming emotions and relationship strain.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether CBT, DBT skills, EMDR techniques, or a client-centered path fits best and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer more flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging provide brief check-ins, real-time text interaction, or ongoing written support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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