Danielle Johnston

Danielle Johnston is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 24 years of experience. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, relationship struggles, and life changes. Her approach aims to build practical skills so clients can feel steadier day to day.

Danielle keeps sessions warm and interactive. She uses clear coaching and step-by-step strategies to help people change habits that no longer serve them. Work often focuses on calming the nervous system, shifting automatic reactions, and practicing new ways to communicate and set boundaries.

Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral ideas to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, attachment-focused work to understand patterns from early relationships, and techniques drawn from acceptance and commitment ideas to choose actions that match values. She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas when people need skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

Sessions are tailored to each person and to the goals they set. Danielle gives short practical tasks between meetings so progress can be checked and built on. Clients leave sessions with concrete steps they can try right away.

People come to Danielle for help with addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, grief, intimacy struggles, career strain, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She aims to help people feel heard, validated, and more able to make small changes that add up over time.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match what matters most. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating and communicating. This can be helpful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and chronic relationship conflicts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practicing alternatives. It is practical and goal-oriented and often used for anxiety, depression, anger, and behavior change.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of therapy. Danielle will work collaboratively to pick methods that fit the client's goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts strategies over time based on what is helping and what feels doable for each person.

Confirm current session options before booking to be sure they fit your routine. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for consistent check-ins between appointments. Some people find shorter check-ins or audio-only meetings helpful when time or bandwidth is limited; others prefer full sessions that allow for skill practice and in-depth conversation. Discuss preferred formats during the matching process so sessions can be arranged in a way that supports daily life.