About Daniel
Daniel Klinkert is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and relationship struggles. He holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and draws on his lived experience to connect with clients who need steady, practical support. He uses a client-centered approach that focuses on each person’s strengths and goals.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual. He often combines talk therapy with skills training drawn from cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices.
How Daniel works
Daniel has provided over 10,000 hours of individual and group psychotherapy and spent 18 years practicing as a fully licensed therapist. He has also run a professional training company and contributed to research on psychosocial rehabilitation models. Those roles shaped his focus on practical, real-world tools for coping and recovery.
Common concerns he addresses include depression, anxiety, substance use and process addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and self-esteem. He also helps with parenting stress, career strain, intimacy issues, and managing mood disorders such as bipolar conditions. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, chronic pain and illness, and problems with communication and commitment.
Daniel aims to build strong working relationships and tailor therapy to each person’s needs. He supports people in applying their own strengths toward meaningful change and recovery.
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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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Daniel blends client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindfulness work into online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a working partnership so people feel heard and supported. CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and problems with addiction. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple attention practices to reduce stress and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Daniel will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that fit their goals and preferences. He adjusts the pace and tools based on what is most useful in weekly sessions and checks in regularly about progress and comfort.
Online therapy with him is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow for a deeper face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or text messaging supports brief updates and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity across changes in schedule or location.
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