About Danielle
Danielle Johnston helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship conflict, and problems with self-esteem. She supports those facing grief, trauma, addictions, eating and sleeping concerns, anger, career changes, and struggles with intimacy or attachment. Danielle brings 24 years of clinical experience and a practical coaching style to her work.
Her approach is direct and encouraging. She focuses on small, doable steps a person can practice between sessions. She teaches skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts, calm the body, and improve communication.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to leave people feeling heard, validated, and equipped with one or two tasks to try before the next meeting. Danielle uses techniques drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. She adapts these methods to the concerns someone brings, whether the focus is anxiety, trauma, or relationship patterns.
The methods emphasize practical skill-building and clearer emotional understanding. Clients can expect an interactive style that blends coaching with therapy. Danielle helps identify goals and then works alongside people to reach them.
She pays attention to nervous system responses and attachment dynamics while keeping conversations straightforward and goal oriented. Danielle holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC. She practices in South Carolina and conducts sessions using video, phone, live chat, or messaging.
Her work emphasizes steady progress through small, repeatable steps.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed action in line with those values. It focuses on accepting difficult feelings while moving toward meaningful goals, which can help with depression, anxiety, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep problems, and managing stress through step-by-step exercises and tracking.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal skills. These strategies can help with strong mood swings, anger, and relationship conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Danielle will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time based on what helps most, so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and do fuller conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging supports quick check-ins and ongoing skill practice. These options help fit care into work, family, or busy schedules and make it easier to maintain continuity between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English