About Danett
Danett Simmons is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Texas with 20 years of experience. She helps people handle stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, trauma, and life changes.
Background and approach
Parents and individuals turning to recovery, addiction support, or help with mood challenges will find her focused, practical approach easy to follow. Her style is straightforward and warm.
Sessions are conversational and goal-directed. She listens for patterns in relationships, attachment, and behavior, then works with clients to try new ways of responding.
Expect clear steps to practice between sessions and encouragement to notice small shifts. Danett uses several therapy methods to match the problem at hand.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thinking and routine behaviors. Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused approaches look at how early bonds and current emotional responses shape relationships and intimacy.
She also draws on the Gottman Method when couples want concrete communication tools. Over two decades she has supported people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and major life disruptions.
She also addresses issues tied to ADHD, bipolar disorder, eating concerns, anger, and compassion fatigue. Work with her includes practical coping skills and relationship-focused insights.
Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. Danett welcomes conversations about goals, and she helps people choose a pace and plan that fit their daily lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Danett commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and change behavior patterns. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday problems. Attachment-Based Therapy is another focus; it looks at how early relationships shape current emotional responses and helps people build safer connections in their close relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the work as needs change over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support short updates, coaching between sessions, or a different way to share thoughts for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English