About Destiny
Destiny Howell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward support for depression, relationship strain, trauma recovery, and self-esteem concerns. Her approach centers on practical steps and steady emotional support to help people move forward.
She draws on several evidence-informed methods to tailor work to each person's needs. Sessions often include skills to manage strong emotions, tools for clearer communication, and simple practices to reduce worry and panic.
Background and approach
The aim is to build habits that make daily life easier and more manageable. Howell brings ten years of clinical experience in California to her practice. She emphasizes culturally responsive care and respects each person’s background as part of therapy.
That perspective guides how she listens and the kinds of strategies she recommends. People commonly address issues such as work stress, caregiving strain, grief, addictions, and mood fluctuations in her sessions. She also supports concerns around attachment, body image, obsessive thoughts, and impulse control.
Conversations move at the client’s pace and focus on what matters most to them. Therapy sessions use talk, practical exercises, and goal-oriented planning. Howell works collaboratively to set achievable steps and track progress over time.
Her style is warm, direct, and aimed at helping people handle life's changes with more confidence.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical strategies to reduce worry, panic, and compulsive patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Sessions begin by identifying priorities, then try techniques that fit the client's pace and needs, adjusting as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video is useful for longer sessions and when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging offer brief, on-the-go support and work well for quick skill practice or follow-up between longer sessions.
These options make it possible to access consistent care around work, caregiving, or busy days, while trying different techniques together to reduce anxiety and build coping skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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