About Danica
Danica Bokal is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with eight years of experience in the mental health field. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, career shifts, addictive behaviors, trauma, grief, and identity questions. Danica is attentive to LGBT concerns and offers a warm, direct style that aims to move people toward practical change.
She meets each person where they are and focuses on what matters most to them.
How Danica works
Sessions blend teaching and therapy so clients can try new skills between meetings. The work is active - there is listening, reflection, and clear steps to practice outside sessions. Danica draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment work, attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavior strategies, and dialectical skills.
She uses evidence-informed interventions chosen to suit a person’s goals instead of a one-size-fits-all plan. Progress is tracked with small, doable tasks and regular check-ins. Her style is empathetic and nonjudgmental while remaining focused and practical.
Danica encourages people to notice their strengths and to try real-life changes that build toward a more meaningful life. She guides people to find the resources they already have and to use them with intention. People who want concrete tools, clearer priorities, and support through life transitions often find this approach useful.
Danica aims to help clients create lasting shifts in how they cope, connect, and make decisions.
Danica lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Danica works with
The areas below are the ones Danica selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- 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
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take steps that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where action matters more than perfect control. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns show up now and helps people build more supported ways of relating and feeling safe in connection. This approach is often helpful for intimacy issues, attachment concerns, and relationship patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear strategies and experiments to try between sessions, which can reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and anger.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then suggest strategies to try. Together they review what helps and adjust plans over time so the work fits day-to-day life and real obstacles.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation, while phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging make it easy to check in, process brief moments, and practice skills between scheduled appointments. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities while still working with licensed professionals.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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