Danielle Poehlman , LPC, LMHC

Danielle Poehlman is a licensed professional counselor with nine years of clinical experience. She holds LPC and LMHC credentials and practices from a perspective shaped by personal and family experience with addiction and mental health challenges. Danielle focuses on helping people who are coping with anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and related concerns. She also offers support around women’s issues and intimacy-related concerns.

Danielle uses practical, person-centered methods to help people manage distressing symptoms. Sessions emphasize motivation, strengths, and clear, usable skills for everyday life. She draws on cognitive and behavioral strategies to address thought patterns and coping skills when those are helpful.

Her approach also includes elements of dialectical behavior techniques to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Narrative ideas are used to help people reframe difficult life stories and make sense of painful events. Motivational interviewing supports clients who want to change behavior but feel stuck.

Danielle aims to build rapport quickly and work collaboratively on treatment goals. She frames therapy as a team effort where plans are shaped to fit each person’s needs and pace. Many clients appreciate a direct, empathetic style that mixes education with practical tools.

She works with a broad range of concerns including grief, relationship questions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, sleep problems, anger, career stress, compassion fatigue, and complex trauma. Danielle welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and provides sessions in English to local and international clients.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Danielle commonly draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shape online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and following the client’s priorities, which helps people feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior, teaching concrete skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful coping.

She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those DBT-based skills can be useful for clients managing intense emotions, impulsive behavior, or relationship conflict. Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the process, and she will collaborate with each person to find what fits their goals and preferences.

Online therapy lets people access these approaches through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for conversation and skill practice, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins or ongoing homework. These options make scheduling easier and let clients keep therapy going from different places and routines.