About Danielle
Danielle Ficken is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people facing low self-esteem, anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and major life changes. Her style is warm and direct, and she emphasizes building a steady working relationship with each person.
Danielle draws on Client-Centered Therapy to make sessions feel respectful and collaborative. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thought patterns and try small, practical changes.
How Danielle works
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy help people set short-term goals and find workable steps forward. In sessions she listens closely and encourages clear, doable plans for change. She often helps people who struggle with body image, control issues, feelings of emptiness, and social anxiety.
Post-traumatic stress, forgiveness work, and challenges common to young adults are also within her focus areas. Danielle brings four years of clinical experience to her practice and adapts tools to each person’s pace. She uses technology to communicate and supports video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging depending on the format chosen.
People who choose her therapy can expect straightforward conversation, goal-focused techniques, and a supportive space to try new ways of coping. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability.
Danielle lists 4 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 one is listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Body image
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How Danielle’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's priorities, with the therapist offering empathy and reflective listening to help people clarify what matters. This approach is useful for building trust and organizing thoughts when anxiety or low self-esteem make decision-making hard.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a hands-on method that helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. It often suits people dealing with anxiety, stress, or negative self-talk who want concrete steps to feel better.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Danielle will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adapts strategies as progress or obstacles appear.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for a session that mirrors in-person pacing, phone can fit a brief check-in with lower bandwidth needs, live chat can work for people who prefer writing in the moment, and messaging supports ongoing short reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what helps most.
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