About Danielle
Danielle Washington welcomes people who are ready to make practical changes in their lives. She focuses on helping individuals facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, addiction concerns, and major life changes. Danielle writes plainly and works with people who are willing to take steps toward clearer goals and better coping skills.
She draws on eleven years of counseling experience and holds an LCPC, which stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor.
Background and approach
Danielle blends straightforward talk with concrete strategies so people leave sessions with something to try between meetings. She emphasizes strengths and small, manageable steps rather than quick fixes. Her approach mixes evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based work with emotionally-focused methods when relationships and attachment issues come up.
Danielle also uses motivational interviewing to help people move past ambivalence around change. When requested, she can integrate faith-based ideas alongside clinical methods. People often bring concerns like career stress, parenting and family strain, fertility questions, trauma and abuse, panic attacks, process addictions, or loneliness.
Danielle helps by identifying patterns, building practical coping tools, and setting realistic goals that fit daily life. Sessions focus on clear plans and small experiments to test what works. Danielle partners with each person to track progress and adjust the plan as needed.
She aims for a practical, respectful tone and supports people who want steady, workable progress toward their goals.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online work
Danielle commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking action even when uncomfortable feelings are present. That approach helps with chronic anxiety, depression, and decisions that feel stuck. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with behavioral experiments, a method that often helps with panic, mood, and stress-related problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Danielle treats the process as a collaboration and will help clients try different techniques to see what fits. Together they set goals, review small homework tasks, and adjust methods based on what is actually helping in day-to-day life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video works well for in-depth sessions that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for simpler check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, more frequent exchanges for support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while still using ACT and CBT tools in practical ways.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English