About Danielle
Danielle Poehlman is a licensed professional counselor who brings nine years of clinical experience to her work. She holds LPC and LMHC credentials and practices from a straightforward, compassionate stance. Danielle cares about helping people who feel stuck by guiding them toward clearer choices and steadier days.
Her path into counseling was shaped by family experiences with addiction and mental illness, which gave her a personal understanding of grief and loss.
How Danielle works
Danielle earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in mental health counseling. She combines life experience with formal training to shape practical support. Danielle’s style is motivational and strengths-based.
She listens closely, helps people notice what’s working, and builds on those strengths. Sessions focus on concrete skills alongside space to talk through emotions and hard memories. She uses familiar therapy methods such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior ideas to teach coping skills and change unhelpful patterns.
Narrative approaches and motivational interviewing also appear in her work to help people reshape stories and find motivation for change. Danielle works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD, and caregiver strain. She also addresses attachment and identity-related topics and can discuss kink and alternative sex culture without judgment.
Her approach is practical, empathetic, and focused on helping each person meet their goals.
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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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Practical approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what is said, and helps people feel heard so they can identify their own next steps. This method works well for people who need space to process feelings and make decisions at their own pace.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and many everyday problems.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. It offers practical exercises for managing intense emotions and improving communication in stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try out techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to pick strategies that fit values, lifestyle, and specific concerns.
Online therapy using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging gives flexibility. Video is good for full-session conversation and visual cues. Phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit quick updates, brief check-ins, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and busy days.
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