About Danielle
Danielle Simmons is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in New York who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She creates a calm, straightforward space where people can talk through what’s hard and try practical steps to feel better.
Background and approach
Danielle uses approaches that center the person and their story. She helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and patterns, practice new ways of coping, and strengthen emotional understanding.
Sessions aim to be direct and useful, not full of jargon. She often supports people dealing with family problems, parenting strain, and life changes.
Danielle also works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, anger, career stress, social anxiety, and self-esteem struggles. She pays attention to how family of origin and communication problems shape current challenges.
Her background includes six years of clinical experience in community settings and outpatient care. As an LMFT she blends relationship-focused ideas with cognitive and skills-based techniques to help people make concrete changes.
Danielle tailors each plan to the person in front of her. That might mean telling a different part of a life story, practicing emotional regulation skills, or setting small behavioral goals.
Her style is collaborative and paced to what the client needs. People who choose Danielle can expect a steady, practical approach to emotional work.
She focuses on clear steps, better communication, and learning tools that fit everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The therapist reflects back what she hears and helps the person make choices that match their values and goals. This approach often helps people who need a steady, nonjudgmental space to sort feelings and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. Work in CBT often includes identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety or depression. This approach can be useful for issues like panic, social anxiety, and mood problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Skills include distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with anger, relational conflict, and self-control struggles.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. The process is collaborative and adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, homework discussion, and ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using approaches that aim for practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English