About Danielle
Danielle DePalma is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of experience in New York. She trained in psychology and social work and has spent her career helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. Danielle approaches each person with respect and compassion, and she shapes treatment to fit the individual.
Her work often focuses on relationship struggles, intimacy concerns, and the fallout from trauma or abuse.
How Danielle works
She also supports people facing parenting challenges, adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, and family of origin problems. Career stress, compassion fatigue, and chronic health-related worries such as cancer or caregiving strain are part of her practice too. Danielle uses straightforward methods that people can apply between sessions.
She draws from client-centered therapy to ground conversations in the person’s own goals. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes. When trauma is central, she may use EMDR approaches to address painful memories.
Sessions aim to be practical and collaborative. Danielle focuses on clear steps, skill building, and improving communication. She pays attention to how patterns from family history or attachment issues show up now, and works with clients to change those patterns.
Entering therapy can feel hard, and Danielle emphasizes a calm, nonjudgmental tone. She helps people set realistic goals, track progress, and adjust plans as needs shift. Her plainspoken style is meant to make the work feel doable from week to week.
Danielle lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Danielle works with
The areas below are the ones Danielle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Danielle commonly draws from client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening deeply and following the person’s lead to set goals and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression.She also uses elements of EMDR when trauma is an important focus; this approach works with distressing memories and physical reactions to those memories to reduce their intensity. The choice of approach is a shared decision. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, past experiences, and preferences, then recommend steps to try and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video lets people see facial cues and practice communication skills. Phone sessions can require less bandwidth and are useful for check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, real-time coaching during stressful moments, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to give flexibility so therapy can work around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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