Danielle Nielson
Compassionate support for busy parents and adults
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Danielle
Danielle Nielson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Missouri who helps people address stressors that get in the way of daily life. She focuses on family concerns, parenting strain, trauma, anxiety, mood issues, and the practical skills people need to cope. Danielle speaks plainly and aims to make therapy fit into busy schedules.
She also draws on personal experience as a single parent when helping clients balance work and caregiving demands.
Background and approach
She trained with a Bachelor of Social Work from Missouri Western State University and a Master of Social Work from Park University. Danielle completed clinical supervision in 2020 and has five years of post-degree practice experience. Her work background includes foster care, domestic violence services, and outpatient mental health settings.
In sessions she helps people identify specific triggers and build skills to manage them. Danielle uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Solution-Focused techniques, and Motivational Interviewing to shape practical plans. Conversations focus on workable steps, not jargon, so progress feels tangible and relevant.
She values a warm, strengths-based style and treats therapy as a partnership. Clients set goals and she supports them with concrete tools and accountability. Danielle also enjoys reading and often uses stories or characters to open up discussion about feelings and choices.
Her approach aims to bridge where life is now and where clients want it to go. Sessions are geared toward realistic change that fits each person’s schedule and responsibilities.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Danielle commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change feelings and behavior. ACT helps people notice painful thoughts and commit to actions that align with their values, even when hard emotions remain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Danielle will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process lets clients shape treatment so it feels useful and doable.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match varying schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and other responsibilities while keeping work focused on practical skills and goal 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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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