About Danielle
Danielle Washington welcomes clients who are ready to set goals and do the work needed for meaningful change. She emphasizes a strengths-based stance that prioritizes each person's values and priorities while helping them reduce distress and build practical coping skills.
Background and approach
Danielle encourages commitment to the therapeutic process rather than seeking a quick fix, and she partners with clients to create tailored plans that reflect individual needs and life circumstances. As an LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - with 11 years of clinical experience in Illinois, Danielle blends evidence-based techniques with options for faith-informed support when requested.
Her training includes cognitive and behavioral methods alongside emotion-focused and acceptance-oriented approaches, and she integrates motivational strategies to support engagement. Danielle’s background includes a master's degree in community counseling and a practice focus on concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, addictions, relationship difficulties, and life transitions.
She frames progress as a collaborative journey, helping clients identify obstacles, set realistic goals, and strengthen the skills that promote longer-term wellbeing.
Remote Counseling With Evidence-Based Methods
Danielle frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify personal values and build psychological flexibility through mindfulness and committed action; this approach can be useful for managing anxiety, stress, and life changes. She also employs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and adjust unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, which often helps with mood concerns, panic symptoms, and coping with difficult life events. Emotionally-Focused Therapy informs her work around relationship dynamics and emotional processing when clients need support in understanding and shifting attachment-related patterns.Choosing the right therapeutic approach is treated as a collaborative process. Danielle partners with each person to evaluate goals, preferences, and clinical needs, and she may combine elements from different methods to create a tailored plan. Clients are invited to give feedback so interventions remain responsive and relevant to changing needs.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it possible to engage in ongoing work without travel and to access supports in ways that fit daily life, while still receiving guidance from a licensed professional who adapts clinical tools for remote delivery.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- 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