About Danielle
Danielle Van Dusen is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing in New Hampshire. She draws on many approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and relationship difficulties. Her style is direct and practical, focused on identifying problems and finding workable steps forward.
Danielle has 12 years of experience in community mental health settings. She has worked in outpatient, in-home, and residential programs. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Saint Anselm College and a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Southern New Hampshire University with a concentration in co-occurring addiction.
Background and approach
In sessions she commonly uses client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on mindfulness and existential ideas when those approaches fit a person’s goals. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help moving toward change at their own pace.
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, ADHD, grief, parenting stress, intimacy-related issues, and career strain. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, body image, codependency, domestic violence, and first responder issues. Danielle emphasizes identifying current obstacles and building a clear, realistic path forward.
She aims to match approaches to each person’s needs and comfort level, and offers initial consultation to discuss fit and next steps.
How Danielle’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and building a partnership in sessions. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people name their goals so work can be practical and relevant.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and create new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, includes skills for regulating emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships. Those skills can be useful for strong emotional reactions, anger, self-esteem struggles, and addiction-related urges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can change as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging enable shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection, or support between sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent help while balancing life obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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