About Danielle
Danielle Dessaso is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with four years of clinical experience. She focuses on everyday challenges like stress and anxiety, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, motivation, and coping with life changes. Danielle keeps things straightforward and practical so people can act on what they learn in sessions.
She works from the view that each person knows their story best. Danielle helps people identify strengths they already have and apply them to current problems.
Background and approach
She uses clear, goal-focused conversations to uncover patterns and try small changes that add up. Sessions often include talking through recent events, practicing new ways to respond, and setting simple steps to try between meetings. Danielle pays attention to how feelings show up in daily life and helps people build skills for stress, anxiety, and self-confidence challenges.
Her additional areas of focus include ADHD, body image, caregiver stress, communication and commitment issues, and navigating prejudice or multicultural concerns. She also supports people facing pregnancy and childbirth changes, money stress, life purpose questions, and midlife transitions. Danielle offers an encouraging, down-to-earth style.
She aims to make the first steps less overwhelming and to help clients gain practical tools they can use right away.
How evidence-based approaches meet online flexibility
Danielle draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and practical change. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new responses in daily life, useful for anxiety and stress. Another approach centers on building concrete coping skills like relaxation exercises, time management, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations, which helps with social anxiety and avoidance.Finding the right method is part of the work together. Danielle treats the choice of approach as collaborative and will adjust methods to match a person's goals, needs, and pace. She helps people try techniques, notice what helps, and change course when needed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video lets people maintain face-to-face connection, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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