Danny El Hassan
Supportive counselor for life and family questions
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Danny
Danny El Hassan is an LMHC practicing in New York who focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and LGBT-related matters. He also addresses issues like ADHD, addictions, grief, intimacy problems, and career stress. Danny uses straightforward, practical conversations to help people sort out immediate problems and plan next steps.
He favors short-term work when it fits the problem, but will also stay longer when deeper change is needed. Sessions aim to increase self-awareness and identify unhelpful patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a mix of talking, practical strategies, and moments that examine underlying feelings. Danny draws on several therapy approaches depending on the person’s needs. He uses client-centered methods to make space for the person’s perspective and cognitive behavioral techniques to try different ways of thinking and behaving.
He also brings existential ideas to help people face big life questions and choices. He has three years of clinical experience and holds a New York license as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - NY LMHC 011499. Danny has worked with older adults and has research and publication experience on LGBT elder experiences and disability-related micro-aggressions.
Prior clinical roles included telehealth and phone counseling, including crisis work. That background informs a practical view of remote sessions and how they can increase access and convenience for people seeking help.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person’s goals guide the work. It helps when someone needs to feel heard and to clarify what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and uses simple experiments and skill practice to change patterns; it is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.Danny treats the choice of approach as a shared decision. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how different methods might help. Together they adjust techniques over time so the work fits the client’s life and immediate needs.
Online formats - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - add flexibility for busy schedules and for people who find in-person visits difficult. These options let someone pick the way of communicating that feels easiest, and they can move between formats as needs change. The format supports practical work such as CBT exercises, problem-focused conversations, and steady check-ins over time.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Danny
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point