About Danielle
Danielle Johnston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 24 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and challenges like addiction or grief. Danielle focuses on practical skills that can change daily life and reduce overwhelm.
She uses somatic ideas to help people notice how stress shows up in the body. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based approaches, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions mix talking with exercises to shift thinking and bodily reactions. Danielle takes a coaching-minded stance. She helps clients set small, doable goals and practices between sessions.
Clients are encouraged to try short tasks, notice progress, and build on successes over time. Her style is warm and interactive. She listens, offers clear steps, and teaches ways to calm the nervous system and manage strong emotions.
The focus is on tangible change rather than long lectures. Work with Danielle often looks like learning practical skills, practicing them in real life, and adjusting plans together. She tailors each session to the person’s needs and keeps goals central.
The aim is steady, manageable improvement in mood, relationships, sleep, and daily coping.
How somatic and skills-based approaches work online
Danielle often blends somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based methods. Somatic work focuses on noticing body sensations and simple exercises to ease tension and nervous system arousal, which can help with anxiety, sleep, and stress. ACT helps people clarify values and take small actions that align with those values while learning to make space for difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based work looks at patterns in relationships and helps people change how they connect and communicate with others.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different tools together. If something feels helpful, it will be used more; if not, the plan changes to fit your needs and preferences.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video and phone let the therapist guide breathing, body awareness, and emotional check-ins. Chat and messaging work well for brief coaching, tracking homework, and checking in between longer sessions. This mix gives people flexibility to work on skills from home, during breaks, or while juggling family and work commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English