About Daphne
Daphne Hamburg is a licensed social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings five years of clinical experience and a direct, compassionate style to each session. Daphne uses clear, practical techniques to help people move toward manageable changes in daily life.
She began her work supporting women who experienced domestic abuse and sexual assault. Over time she added experience helping people with substance use concerns and other forms of trauma.
Background and approach
That background shaped a trauma-informed way of working that centers respect and safety. Daphne blends several approaches in sessions. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships affect current patterns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses mindfulness and emotion regulation skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to reduce intense reactions. Her style is warm, interactive, and sex-positive.
She avoids stigmatizing labels and meets each person where they are. Daphne tailors conversations and plans to each person's strengths and goals. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused.
People can expect practical tools, coaching, and gentle challenge when it's useful. Daphne aims to help people build skills they can use outside of sessions. She works with a range of concerns including anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, and work-related stress.
Daphne practices in Michigan and offers services in English to people in and outside the United States.
Approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and behavior. Online sessions can use this approach to identify patterns that affect trust and closeness and to practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing thoughts and testing them through practical experiments. It works well online because homework, worksheets, and skills practice can be shared and reviewed between sessions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used for trauma processing and can be adapted for remote work with guided protocols and paced memory processing.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Daphne will collaborate with each person to decide which strategies fit their goals and comfort level. She combines methods when useful and adjusts the plan as progress and needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps when real-time interaction and visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Chat or messaging supports ongoing contact and brief skill coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to continue work while traveling or living abroad.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Virginia, California
- Languages
- English
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