Danielle Behrens
Calm guidance for practical change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Danielle
Danielle Behrens is a licensed professional counselor with 26 years of experience. She helps people facing trauma, anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, and parenting concerns. Her work includes support around relationship and intimacy issues, grief, self-esteem, and career questions.
Danielle aims to make therapy practical and understandable for everyday life. Danielle uses clear, straightforward methods in sessions. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people learn skills and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, doable steps such as changing patterns of thinking, practicing communication, and building emotional awareness. Her style is warm and direct. She creates space for people to talk about hard memories and current stressors without judgment.
The emphasis is on finding useful tools and rebuilding routines that support everyday functioning. Danielle also addresses complex or layered concerns like co-morbidity, caregiver stress, body image, and issues tied to adoption and foster care. She blends techniques to match what each person needs, rather than relying on a single method.
This allows work on symptoms and on the relational patterns that maintain them. Working with Danielle means focusing on what matters right now and on plans that fit a person’s life. She practices in Wisconsin as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor.
Sessions are offered in English and use several online formats to suit different needs.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small actions that match those values. It focuses on accepting difficult emotions while committing to meaningful behavior changes, and can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and for improving coping with everyday stress.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It can help people who struggle with trust, intimacy-related issues, abandonment concerns, or connection problems in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Danielle will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. This is a shared process that can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity during life changes. Therapists can use the same practical skills and exercises online as they do in person, allowing clients to practice tools and get feedback in ways that match their daily routines.
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
Next step
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