About Daniel
Daniel Christy is a licensed professional counselor with 24 years of experience. He focuses on common concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, grief, and career strain. He keeps things straightforward and practical so people can talk about what matters most to them.
Daniel uses a relaxed, conversational style during sessions. He starts by listening to what feels hardest right now and then helps clients set steps they can try between appointments.
Background and approach
Sessions often include practical skills from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness practices to manage thoughts and strong emotions. He also helps people with relationship and family challenges, parenting strain, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. Daniel can address deeper issues like abandonment, guilt, body image, and end-of-life concerns when those come up in conversation.
Over two decades in practice taught him to match the plan to the person. He blends solution-focused ideas and motivational interviewing to keep goals realistic and doable. The approach is goal-oriented but flexible enough for slow, steady progress.
People who choose Daniel can expect clear, predictable steps and an emphasis on practical coping strategies. He guides conversations so clients leave sessions with tools they can use right away. The aim is to help people move forward from feeling stuck and regain a sense of control.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting the client as the expert on their own life; the therapist follows the client's lead and creates a respectful space to talk about what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and tolerating distress.Finding the right mix of these approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences in early sessions and tailor techniques over time. This is a collaborative process where the client and therapist adjust methods based on what is helpful.
Online therapy provides flexible ways to meet across video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions suit deeper conversations and skills practice, phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth, live chat works for faster back-and-forth, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life circumstances while using the same therapeutic approaches described above.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English