About Danny
Danny Maggard is a Licensed Professional Counselor who combines practical therapies with a direct, supportive style. He draws on five years of counseling experience and a long career in emergency services to help people facing addiction, trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, and other life stresses. Danny invites clients to be active partners in care and focuses on clear, achievable goals.
Danny frames counseling as a collaborative process. He helps people identify what they can change and what they cannot.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward skills practice and homework aimed at daily life improvements. He emphasizes accountability and steady progress rather than quick fixes. His background includes work in emergency response as a firefighter and in law enforcement, plus several years providing therapy and case management in a residential treatment setting.
That experience shaped his approach to crisis intervention and working with people affected by substance use and trauma. Danny uses practical methods such as cognitive-behavioral techniques, solution-focused strategies, and client-centered work to address symptoms and build coping skills. He also incorporates accelerated resolution work and psycho-educational methods when those fit a person’s goals.
His sessions are goal-oriented and geared toward clear tools people can use outside of sessions. People who prefer straightforward language and concrete steps often find his style a good match. He works with concerns including anger, career stress, bipolar issues, life transitions, and problems related to isolation or purpose.
Danny practices in Missouri and offers multiple online formats to fit different schedules.
Practical approaches for online care
Many of his approaches are brief and skills-focused. Cognitive-behavioral work helps people identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or anger. Solution-focused strategies concentrate on immediate goals and small changes that make daily life easier.He also uses client-centered methods that prioritize the person's own goals and perspective, and accelerated resolution techniques that aim to reduce distress from traumatic memories more quickly. Each approach is explained in simple terms and matched to the person's needs and comfort level.
Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, symptoms, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues for skill practice. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, coaching, or homework support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule without traveling.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English