About Danett
Danett Simmons is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. She brings 20 years of experience to the room and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is warm and direct so conversations stay focused and useful.
Danett listens for what matters most to each person and shapes sessions around those priorities.
How Danett works
She uses approaches that center on attachment and emotions while also teaching strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy. This mix helps with mood concerns, grief, addictions, and problems with self-esteem or body image. Sessions often include talking through patterns, learning new ways to respond, and practicing tools between meetings.
She helps people facing life transitions, chronic illness, caregiving strain, and the fallout from trauma. Danett also supports those struggling with commitment issues, communication problems, codependency, and blended family stress. Her background emphasizes long-term change built from small, steady shifts.
Over two decades she has worked with a variety of concerns including bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD, anger, and intimacy-related issues. Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental approach that still aims for concrete progress. Danett frames therapy as a collaborative process.
She helps people set clear goals and tracks progress so work stays relevant. If someone is coping with loss, addiction, or the stress of caregiving, she focuses on skills that ease daily life and rebuild emotional balance.
Danett lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
What Danett works with
The areas below are the ones Danett selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Attachment-Based Therapy centers on how early bonds shape current relationships and emotions; it can help people who struggle with closeness, abandonment worries, or recurring relationship patterns. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person’s own goals and pace, offering a nonjudgmental space where people guide the work and the therapist reflects and supports progress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change thinking and behavior patterns and is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adapt as needs change, so the plan stays collaborative and focused on real-life results.
Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a flexible check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity across life changes.
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