About Danielle
Danielle Larson is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, and life transitions. She offers a calm, straightforward presence and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style aims to reduce overwhelm and build steady habits that support daily life.
Her work centers on listening first and then choosing tools that fit each person. She uses approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy to address symptoms and patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill practice, real-world experiments, and simple homework people can try between meetings. Danielle helps people facing relationship strain, grief, mood concerns, and challenges with self-esteem or anger. She also supports people coping with career stress, parenting difficulties, substance use, and the fallout from trauma or attachment wounds.
When needed she discusses emotion regulation and communication skills in clear, usable ways. People who come to Danielle often want direct guidance and a steady plan. She blends supportive listening with concrete strategies so people can test changes without feeling judged.
Progress is measured in small, realistic steps rather than overnight fixes. Danielle practices in Illinois and works by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She holds an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and brings more than a decade of clinical experience to each session.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them control actions. It teaches values-based choices so people can take meaningful steps even when anxiety or doubt are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to shift mood and behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to goals and try methods together to see what fits. This is a cooperative process where adjustments are made based on what helps most in day-to-day life. Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make short problem-solving and skill practice possible between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy fit schedules, reduce travel time, and let people use different formats for different needs.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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