About Dannielle
Dannielle McLean uses practical, skills-based therapy to help people manage stress, mood symptoms, and substance concerns. She is an LCPC and focuses on building steady routines and skills that reduce reactivity and improve daily functioning. Sessions emphasize clear goals and small, achievable steps toward change.
Dannielle draws on methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to change unhelpful thinking and teach emotion regulation. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find the reasons they want to change and to strengthen commitment to those goals.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques and solution-focused strategies are woven into sessions to promote grounding and quick problem solving. In each meeting Dannielle works with clients to practice concrete coping skills. That can include shifting thought patterns, building self-compassion, relaxation exercises, and craving management.
Sessions often follow a routine so new skills get tried, reviewed, and refined over time. She has three years of clinical experience working with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, trauma and related concerns. Dannielle helps people address sleep and eating issues, anger, low self-esteem, ADHD, parenting strain, and relationship or family conflict as individual concerns.
Her approach is collaborative and goal-focused. She supports clients as they set realistic steps, keep momentum, and adjust plans when life gets hard. The work is paced to match each person’s needs and capacity.
Evidence-informed approaches adapted for online care
Dannielle often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and mood problems going. CBT is goal-oriented and helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and patterns that fuel substance use.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT techniques can help manage intense mood swings, strong urges, and reactive behavior by giving concrete tools to practice during and between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. Dannielle collaborates with each person to choose and adapt strategies based on their goals, preferences, and day-to-day demands. That means trying skills, reviewing what helps, and shifting methods when needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video is useful for full sessions and skill teaching, phone works when bandwidth is low or for a focused check-in, and chat or messaging can suit brief updates or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and to practice new skills where they matter most.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English