Danelle Locklear
Supportive family-focused social work
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Danelle
Danelle Locklear is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside many related issues. She speaks English and draws on practical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, substance concerns, trauma, depression, grief, and parenting challenges. Her style is straightforward and centered on the person in front of her.
She aims to meet families where they are and work toward clear, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Locklear brings five years of clinical experience as an LCSW plus a long history of social work in schools and substance services. She uses familiar, evidence-based methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing when they fit a client’s needs. She also leans on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to support emotional regulation and everyday coping skills.
Sessions may include hands-on strategies for sleep, eating, anger, and impulse control, as well as help with communication and family problem solving. She also addresses issues such as ADHD, chronic illness, grief, intimacy concerns, and life transitions. Her work can include short-term, solution-focused steps and longer-term skill-building depending on what the family needs.
Therapy with Locklear typically starts with listening closely to the family’s concerns, then choosing practical next steps together. She uses language that parents and caregivers can understand and prefers clear, doable goals. Her aim is to help people notice progress and build stronger routines and relationships.
Practically, sessions are offered online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging and follow the subscription model used by the service. Costs vary with location and therapist availability, and scheduling begins after a short matching questionnaire.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online family care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building on each person’s abilities. It helps parents and caregivers feel heard and sets goals that make sense for their daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each family to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. That may mean trying short-term, solution-focused steps first and adding CBT, mindfulness, or motivational techniques over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible options for busy families. These formats let parents fit sessions around school and work schedules, continue care during life changes, and choose the way they communicate that feels most comfortable. The combination of practical approaches and flexible delivery aims to make therapy easier to use for family and parenting concerns.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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