Danielle Simon
Calm, practical help for overwhelming life issues
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Danielle
Danielle Simon is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage overwhelming feelings and life disruptions. She has 12 years of experience and works with issues such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, trauma, and questions about identity. Danielle speaks plainly and meets people where they are so conversations feel direct and understandable.
She approaches each case with respect, sensitivity, and empathy. Danielle adapts the pace and structure of sessions to match a person’s needs.
Background and approach
That can mean setting practical goals for coping skills, looking at patterns that keep problems going, or working through painful memories at a steady pace. Danielle uses evidence-based techniques to guide treatment while keeping conversations practical and focused. She also supports people facing grief, intimacy concerns, eating struggles, anger, ADHD, and stress related to life changes.
Additional areas she addresses include communication problems, isolation, and the effects of traumatic brain injury. Sessions are available in formats that fit modern life, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. She is licensed in Massachusetts as an LICSW and conducts work in English.
Danielle invites a collaborative approach to care. She tailors the dialogue and any plan to the individual rather than applying a single script. Taking the first step can be hard, and she acknowledges the courage it takes to begin.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Danielle draws on evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and steady progress. One common approach emphasizes building coping skills and routines for managing anxiety, depression, and mood shifts; this involves practicing short exercises and changing day-to-day habits to reduce symptoms. Another approach centers on processing trauma in manageable steps while teaching calming strategies to use when memories or triggers feel intense; the work moves at a pace each person can tolerate.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Danielle will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and what has or has not helped in the past. She adjusts plans over time based on what is working and what needs to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules and for people who prefer different ways to connect. These options make it easier to fit ongoing work into real life while maintaining continuity between sessions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver structured therapy that focuses on concrete change and steady support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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