About Danielle
Danielle Nielson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and parenting strains. She focuses on clear steps you can try between sessions. Danielle keeps language simple and practical so busy parents can follow along.
She draws on five years of clinical experience working in foster care, domestic violence services, and outpatient mental health in Missouri. That work shaped how she responds to trauma, relationship problems, and grief.
Background and approach
Danielle uses a warm, strengths-based manner that looks for what already works in your life and builds from there. In sessions she helps people identify triggers that hurt their day-to-day life. Together they find small skills to reduce overwhelm and improve routine.
She uses concrete tools from cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused approaches to make progress feel manageable. Danielle also brings elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and motivational interviewing to help clients clarify values and stay motivated during change. She views therapy as a partnership and invites clients to shape goals and pace.
Her style is practical, direct, and supportive so people can try new strategies and see what fits. Outside of work she balances parenting and reading, and often notices how stories mirror real life. That perspective sometimes becomes a simple way to talk through difficult feelings.
Danielle works with individuals who want to reduce anxiety, cope with life changes, and improve relationships with themselves and others.
How Danielle’s approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when anxiety or difficult feelings show up. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and meeting you where you are so you can set the pace for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy uses practical exercises to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce stress and improve mood.Deciding which approach fits best is part of the work. Danielle treats this as a collaboration - she will listen to your goals and preferences, try techniques with you, and adjust the plan as you learn what helps. That way the methods used reflect your needs rather than a fixed protocol.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier for people who juggle work, family, or irregular hours. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging offer shorter check-ins and flexibility between sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent around busy lives and changing routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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