About Destiny
Destiny Howell is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She uses practical, down-to-earth strategies to address everyday problems and big life changes. She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based ideas to help people notice what matters and take steps toward it.
Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused, with an emphasis on skills you can use between meetings.
How Destiny works
Destiny has spent ten years working with adults on a wide variety of concerns. That experience includes supporting people through trauma and grief, addressing addiction and compassion fatigue, and helping with mood disorders and panic. She also helps clients facing career challenges, body image issues, and difficulties with intimacy and communication.
Her work pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns. She helps clients understand attachment and build healthier ways of relating to themselves and others. Practical tools from cognitive-behavioral and dialectical approaches are used to change unhelpful thinking and manage intense emotions.
In sessions she emphasizes clear, simple steps - skill practice, behavioral experiments, and values-based goals. The aim is to reduce symptoms and increase day-to-day functioning. People leave with techniques to handle stress, improve sleep and eating patterns, and move toward a clearer sense of purpose.
Destiny lists 18 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Destiny works with
The areas below are the ones Destiny selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with panic, mood disorders, and compulsive patterns. Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and help people build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Destiny works collaboratively to match techniques to each person's needs, goals, and preferences. Clients and the therapist review progress together and adjust methods if something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers practical advantages. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a quick check-in during a break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short, flexible contact and support between sessions. These formats make it easier to maintain regular care around work, family, and daily life.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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