About Daniel
Daniel Cardenas welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or life changes. He writes short, clear plans to help clients manage day-to-day problems and feel steadier. Daniel is an MD and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with seven years of practice in Maryland.
He approaches sessions with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Conversations are adapted to what each person needs. Daniel focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions to improve sleep, reduce anxiety, and handle anger or low mood.
How Daniel works
Daniel also helps with relationship and intimacy-related struggles, career concerns, and issues tied to trauma, ADHD, or grief. He pays attention to how attachment or communication patterns affect current problems and works on ways to change them. Sessions cover coping strategies for compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, first responder challenges, immigration-related stress, and recovery from disasters.
He addresses guilt, shame, impulsivity, and eating or control-related issues with straightforward guidance. Clients can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together. Daniel explains options and tailors the plan as progress is made.
He encourages small, achievable steps so people can notice real shifts over time.
What Daniel works with
The areas below are the ones Daniel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCPC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Practical approaches and online care
Daniel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skill building and problem solving. One common approach emphasizes coping skills and behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and improve sleep; it teaches small, repeatable actions people can try between sessions. Another approach looks at patterns in relationships and communication to address attachment issues and intimacy-related concerns; this helps people change how they relate and handle conflict.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust plans based on what works for each person. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques feel most helpful and practical.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation time, while phone sessions can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers writing over talking. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into busy lives.
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