About Daniel
Daniel Thorne is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works in California. He brings three decades of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on practical ways to reduce stress, ease anxiety, and address depression.
Background and approach
He also helps people facing addiction, relationship or parenting strains, and problems tied to trauma or intimacy. His style is straightforward and collaborative.
He begins by asking what matters most to the client and then sets simple, short-term goals to build momentum. Sessions often mix teachable skills and conversational check-ins so progress is steady and understandable.
Daniel uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. He also draws on dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills.
When appropriate, he offers hypnotherapy techniques and mindfulness practices to reduce physical tension and improve focus. Clients describe practical takeaways from sessions, like breath-based exercises, thought-restructuring strategies, and stepwise plans to cut back on substance use or manage phobias.
He pays attention to caregiver stress, adoption and foster care challenges, and financial or life-stage pressures that can wear people down. With experience across many concerns, Daniel aims to meet people where they are and build from there.
He accepts international clients and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How Daniel’s Approaches Fit Online Therapy
Client-centered work focuses on the client’s goals and priorities, letting the person steer what to address in each session while the therapist offers support and reflection. This approach is useful for people who want a collaborative pace and personal direction in therapy.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches straightforward skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and change them into more useful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, phobias, and problems with worry or avoidance, and adapts well to exercises done between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions and handling crisis moments with step-by-step tools for tolerance and regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and past experience, and together they will choose techniques that feel workable. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to real-life needs rather than forcing one method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for in-depth skill practice and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, frequent contacts for real-time support. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English