Dannielle McLean
Compassionate skills-based support for change
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Maine
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Dannielle
Dannielle McLean is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who focuses on practical skills to help people get through hard times. She speaks plainly and offers steady support as clients set realistic goals. Sessions emphasize coping skills, motivation, and small habits that add up to real change.
She has three years of experience in behavioral health and has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings earlier in her career. That background informs her work with stress, anxiety, addiction, mood concerns, trauma, sleep and eating problems, parenting challenges, and attention difficulties.
Background and approach
People looking for straightforward techniques tend to find her approach useful. In sessions she uses skill-building routines to manage strong emotions, cravings, mood swings, and anxiety. Expect work on shifting unhelpful thoughts, building self-compassion, and practicing relaxation methods.
She also uses motivational interviewing to boost commitment and follow-through on goals. Dannielle guides clients through small, achievable steps. She offers regular contact and feedback to help maintain progress and adapt plans as needed.
The tone of therapy is collaborative and goal-focused, with an emphasis on techniques you can use between meetings. She practices in Maine and provides services in English. The initial steps are simple: answer a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on availability.
If a parent or caregiver is reading, her practical, skills-based style aims to make daily life a little easier.
Evidence-based approaches for online therapy and self-management
Dannielle uses cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing to guide online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change habits. Motivational interviewing helps clarify what matters to a client and builds motivation to follow through on changes that feel important.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and mindfulness techniques to teach emotion regulation and grounding practices. DBT supplies concrete skills for tolerating distress and managing big feelings, while mindfulness exercises help bring attention back to the present and reduce reactivity. Together these approaches aim to give practical tools rather than abstract concepts.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different techniques to see what fits best. Pace and focus are adjusted over time, and you and the therapist work together to set achievable steps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options make it easier to fit regular contact into a busy week, practice skills between meetings, and get timely feedback and support as progress is made.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point