About Danielle
Danielle Larson is an Illinois-licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who draws on 11 years of experience to guide people through complex emotional and behavioral challenges.
Background and approach
She uses a compassionate, client-centered stance that emphasizes understanding each person's strengths and lived experience while applying evidence-based methods to address issues such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addiction, trauma, grief, and life transitions. Her practice highlights work on relationship and intimacy concerns, communication and attachment difficulties, and struggles with self-esteem and coping skills.
Danielle integrates approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and the Gottman Method to create tailored interventions that fit individual needs. She also offers focused support around parenting and fatherhood issues, career and workplace stress, compassion fatigue, and end-of-life and hospice-related counseling.
Danielle aims to help clients build resilience, strengthen connections, and make meaningful changes at a pace that feels manageable. Conversations in her practice move between skill-building and deeper exploration, combining practical strategies with attention to values and relational patterns.
Based in Illinois, she offers services in English and works to create a progressive, affirming environment for those seeking non-religious therapeutic care.
How therapeutic approaches are used in online care
Danielle commonly integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) into her online work. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and learning to accept difficult thoughts and emotions while committing to meaningful actions, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. CBT emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical skills and exercises, useful for mood disorders, anxiety, and coping with addictions.Finding the best-fit approach is collaborative; the therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the problems you bring to help decide whether ACT, CBT, DBT skills, or relational work like the Gottman Method is most appropriate. Clients are involved in shaping the plan and adjusting methods as progress unfolds so treatment stays aligned with their needs.
Online therapy offers flexible options including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life or access support from home. These formats allow licensed professionals to deliver skills training, talk therapy, and relationship-focused strategies in ways that meet different schedules and communication styles.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English