About Danielle
Danielle Behrens is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, stress, and relationship struggles. She brings 26 years of experience and focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier and more capable. Danielle listens closely and offers straightforward tools to manage overwhelming feelings and daily challenges.
Her work centers on reducing distress and improving communication. She helps people build healthier routines for sleep, eating, and self-care.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with grief, addiction, career shifts, parenting strain, and identity questions. Sessions aim for clarity and usable strategies rather than jargon. Danielle blends several psychological approaches to match what each person needs.
She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice what matters most. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about patterns in relationships.
Client-centered principles shape the way she meets people - with warmth and respect. Dialectical behavior skills are available for intense emotions and crisis coping. Together these methods are used to build steady progress over time, not quick fixes.
People meet Danielle by talking about goals, trying a few techniques, and adjusting what isn’t working. She explains options in plain language and supports clients as they practice new skills between sessions. Her Wisconsin practice emphasizes practical change and emotional understanding.
Online approaches that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which helps with mood, sleep, and stress management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationship patterns shape current interactions and helps people shift those patterns to feel safer and more connected.Danielle will work together with each person to decide which approach or combination feels most helpful. That process starts by talking about goals, trying techniques, and making adjustments based on what helps in daily life. The plan evolves as needs and preferences become clearer, so the client stays part of each decision.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice communication skills. Phone sessions are low bandwidth and can fit a break during a workday. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, homework support, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English