Dr. Daniel Ringhoff
Compassionate, practical help for life challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Daniel
Dr. Daniel Ringhoff offers straightforward support for people facing stress at home or in life. He frames work around real problems like anxiety, depression, addiction, parenting struggles, and grief.
His tone is warm and non-judgmental, and he invites people to try practical steps toward change. Dr. Ringhoff is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with 17 years of experience in Florida.
He uses everyday language in sessions and focuses on what clients want to accomplish.
Background and approach
Conversations tend to be interactive, with guidance, feedback, and concrete tools to try between visits. He blends strategies from several therapy approaches to match each person’s needs rather than offering a single fixed method. Many sessions include skills for managing emotions, changing unhelpful thinking, and building healthier routines.
He also addresses relationship patterns and parenting challenges in ways that aim to make day-to-day life more manageable. When trauma or past hurt is part of the picture, he works to help people process those experiences while staying grounded in the present. Dr.
Ringhoff highlights respect and compassion in his work and encourages clients to be active partners in therapy. He helps people look at different perspectives and practice new responses. His goal is to support steady progress toward clearer goals and better coping.
He has treated a wide range of concerns across his career, including mood disorders, addiction, attachment issues, and caregiver stress. His practice draws on cognitive-behavioral, acceptance-based, attachment-informed, and client-centered ideas to tailor care to the person in front of him.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that align with their values. It teaches simple exercises to reduce avoidance and build a life that matters despite difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical tools to change patterns that cause stress or low mood. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication. It can help people understand caregiving, intimacy, or communication issues and practice different ways of relating.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. It is common to combine techniques from different approaches rather than rely on one single method, and adjustments are made as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging provide choices for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to fit work on stress, parenting, or recovery into a busy life. Sessions can focus on skill practice, problem solving, and check-ins between longer appointments to support steady progress.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- 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
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida, California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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