About Danielle
Danielle Nielson makes space for people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or burned out. She helps clients name the problems that matter most and build simple, practical skills to feel better. Danielle writes plainly with a warm, supportive style and aims to make therapy fit busy lives.
Danielle is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing in Missouri. She earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Missouri Western State University and a Master of Social Work from Park University.
How Danielle works
Her clinical supervision was completed in 2020 and she has about five years of experience in mental health settings. Her background includes work in foster care, domestic violence services, and outpatient mental health. Those roles shaped how she looks at family stress, trauma, and the everyday pressures that sap energy.
She describes therapy as a partnership where the client sets goals and they work together to meet them. In sessions she focuses on identifying triggers and building manageable coping skills. She uses straightforward methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused work, and Motivational Interviewing to help people change patterns and try new behaviors.
The emphasis is on small, realistic steps that fit around work and parenting demands. Danielle is also a single mother and understands the challenge of balancing care responsibilities with self-care. Outside work she enjoys reading and talking about books, which she sometimes uses to connect themes from stories to clients' lives.
She welcomes international clients and offers several online formats to make therapy easier to schedule.
Danielle lists 6 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.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Danielle commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. ACT helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values while learning to notice painful thoughts without getting pulled away from chosen actions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing different behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood.She also uses Solution-Focused techniques and Motivational Interviewing when helpful to keep sessions practical and goal-oriented. Those approaches help clients identify immediate, achievable changes and build motivation for trying new strategies. Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process - the therapist and client together choose what fits the client's goals, needs, and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different lifestyles. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction, phone can work with lower bandwidth or when camera use is not desired, live chat can support quick check-ins, and text messaging is useful for shorter updates or between-session notes. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and other commitments while still using the approaches described above.
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