About Danielle
Danielle Whiteside offers calm, steady support for people feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about their relationships and life direction. She meets individuals who want clearer communication, better emotional coping, or help navigating big changes.
Background and approach
Danielle writes in a warm, direct style and aims to make the first steps feel manageable. With 12 years of experience and a licensed marriage and family therapist credential (LMFT), she uses practical, relationship-focused methods.
Sessions look at everyday patterns that cause friction. Danielle helps clients notice triggers, name feelings, and set small, doable goals for change.
Her background includes work with relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, grief, and anxiety. She also supports people facing career uncertainty, body image concerns, or family of origin issues.
That range keeps conversations grounded and relevant to daily life. Danielle draws from several approaches to shape each session.
She uses client-centered conversation to build understanding and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. For processing traumatic memories she incorporates EMDR, and for couples she applies elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication.
Therapy is collaborative and paced to the person in the room. Danielle helps create practical tools for stress, anger, or ongoing worry.
People leave with clearer plans and skills they can use between sessions.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration. Danielle focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a supportive working relationship that guides the goals of therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In sessions she helps people spot patterns, test different thoughts, and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety or improve mood.Choosing the right approach is part of working together. Danielle will discuss options and adjust methods based on goals, what has helped in the past, and what feels most manageable. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so they fit the individual rather than forcing one method on everyone.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let the therapist and client see facial cues and practice communication skills. Phone sessions can be a simpler choice when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, writing out thoughts, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options aim to offer flexibility and consistent access to support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Indiana, South Dakota, Georgia
- Languages
- English