About Danielle
Danielle Nielson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Missouri who helps people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, grief, and relationship concerns. She speaks plainly and works to make sessions fit busy schedules. Her background includes work in foster care, domestic violence, and outpatient mental health.
Danielle focuses on spotting patterns and triggers that lower quality of life. She works with clients to build practical skills for day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - she helps people set goals and tries approaches that match each person's needs. Her clinical path began with a Bachelor of Social Work from Missouri Western State University in 2013 and a Master of Social Work from Park University in 2015. She completed clinical supervision in 2020 and has five years of post-licensure experience in direct practice.
That mix of field work and outpatient care informs her practical style. Danielle blends evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, Acceptance and Commitment ideas, solution-focused planning, and motivational interviewing. The work is described simply: notice what isn’t working, try doable changes, and track what helps.
She leans toward strengths-based, warm collaboration rather than long lectures. Outside of practice she balances parenting and self-care as a single mom, and she often uses books and stories as entry points in sessions. People who want straightforward strategies and a partner to help with real-life changes may find her approach easy to follow.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Danielle frequently uses cognitive behavioral therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to see what improves daily life, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related struggles. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values, accept difficult feelings without getting stuck, and take practical steps toward a meaningful life.Choosing the right approach is a collaboration. The therapist will ask about your goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together you will try methods that fit your needs and adjust as you see what works best over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into real life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and chat or messaging work well for short check-ins or when a flexible, asynchronous option helps maintain momentum.
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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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