About Danielle
Danielle (Dani) Spolarich is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in Minnesota with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping adults facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, depression, and life transitions. Dani brings a calm, direct manner to sessions and aims to make therapy practical and approachable.
Dani often helps people who are dealing with relationship patterns, workplace stress, or chronic health concerns. She also supports those navigating parenting strain, sleep disruption, anger, and challenges with self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with clients who identify as LGBT and those managing bipolar symptoms or ADHD. In sessions she uses clear, evidence-based methods to build coping skills and improve daily functioning. Dani blends cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work with trauma-informed strategies when needed.
This combination is used to tackle symptoms and habits that get in the way of everyday life. She aims for collaboration - setting goals together and checking in on progress. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with space to process difficult feelings when they arise.
Dani encourages small, doable steps toward better routines and relationships. Dani provides care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Her practice serves people in Minnesota and sessions are held in English.
To begin, a short questionnaire and scheduling step are used to match clients to an appropriate plan.
How Dani’s Approaches Work Online
Danielle uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday habits.She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to support people who are ambivalent about change. This method focuses on exploring goals, building motivation, and planning small steps forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dani will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt techniques as progress is made. The process is collaborative and paced to the person's needs.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues for fuller conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good option when video is difficult. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options provide flexibility for different schedules, energy levels, and communication styles.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English