Danielle (Danni) Helms, LPC, LCMHC
Compassionate, body-aware counseling for adults
About Danielle
Danielle (Danni) Helms is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with nine years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, anger, grief, and self-esteem. She also supports concerns such as ADHD, family problems, eating struggles, and overwhelm from stress.
Danni aims to make the first step feel possible and clear for someone who is nervous about reaching out. Her style is direct and compassionate.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her. She listens closely and adapts the conversation and plan to each person's needs. That might mean practical coping skills one week and deeper exploration another week.
Danni uses body-focused work alongside talk therapy. She combines somatic approaches with client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral tools. That mix lets people notice how their body and thoughts interact during strong emotions.
She also draws from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness practices. Those methods teach skills for regulating emotions, staying present, and reducing intense reactions. Motivational interviewing and narrative techniques help people find clearer goals and rewrite harmful self-stories.
Danni holds licensure in South Carolina and North Carolina - SC LPC 7326 and NC LCMHC 12693. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people both inside and outside the United States. Therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How somatic work and skills-based therapy fit online
Somatic-informed therapy helps people notice how stress and emotions show up in the body, such as tightness, breath changes, or restlessness, and uses gentle awareness to reduce distress. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and shaping sessions around what the person needs most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel useful and safe based on goals and preferences. Sessions can shift over time as needs change, with the therapist checking in regularly about what is and isn't working.
Online formats make this kind of work more flexible. Video calls let people practise breathing and body-awareness exercises in real time. Phone, live chat, and text-based messaging provide options for people who prefer written check-ins or shorter, frequent contact. These choices help fit therapy into busy lives and make it easier to keep consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English