About Danielle
Danielle Whiteside offers a calm, steady presence for people facing relationship strain, stress, anxiety, grief, or major life changes. She greets clients with a practical, down-to-earth style and helps them find clearer ways to cope and move forward. Danielle is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist, LMFT, with 12 years of clinical experience in Kentucky.
She focuses on relationship patterns, communication problems, and healing after trauma or loss. Danielle also addresses parenting concerns, self-esteem, career pressures, anger, and the everyday weight of caregiving.
How Danielle works
Her background includes work with issues tied to abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment, blended family situations, and family of origin problems. In sessions she uses client-centered work to listen and build trust, cognitive behavioral methods to shift unhelpful thoughts and actions, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity.
She also integrates EMDR for processing traumatic memories and Gottman Method ideas for improving couple interactions when relevant. The tone is pragmatic and collaborative rather than clinical. Therapy with Danielle aims for concrete changes you can use outside the session.
That might mean clearer boundaries, new communication habits, or step-by-step plans for coping with stress. She helps set realistic goals and tracks progress in ways that fit each person's life. People meet her for short-term problem solving or longer-term growth.
Sessions blend listening, skill coaching, and gentle challenge to help individuals discover more stability and connection in their daily lives.
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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.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Danielle blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies to make sessions practical and relatable. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building trust so clients can name what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps spot patterns in thoughts and behaviors and then tries small experiments to change them.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, for people who need help processing painful or traumatic memories; EMDR works by pairing guided processing with sensory input to reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions. Danielle treats the choice of methods as a collaborative process and will help you figure out which approach, or combination, fits your goals and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when you want a face-to-face feel, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These options let people keep therapy woven into work, family, and travel without long commutes.
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