About Danelle
Danelle Locklear is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, grief, and other life challenges. She approaches sessions with clear goals and practical steps. Parents and adults looking for straightforward support often appreciate her direct style.
She uses a person-centered outlook that starts with what each person already does well. From there she mixes in tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches when they fit the situation.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, like coping strategies, communication techniques, and ways to manage mood or cravings. Locklear has five years of experience listed as a clinician and additional background working in school social work and substance services. That history informs how she helps with parenting concerns, family stress, and school-related issues.
She also works with people dealing with chronic illness, chronic pain, or challenges that affect daily functioning. In practical terms, she offers goal-focused work on problems such as sleep or eating difficulties, anger, low self-esteem, ADHD-related struggles, and career or life-purpose questions. When substance use is involved, sessions include motivational strategies and steps to reduce harm.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She helps people set short-term goals and checks progress each session. The aim is steady, manageable change rather than dramatic promises.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's strengths and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment and helps people set goals that matter to them, which works well for motivation, relationship concerns, and self-esteem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change them. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing mood swings. Mindfulness Therapy adds attention skills to notice sensations and thoughts without getting swept away, which can reduce stress and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. Sessions often start with clear short-term targets and adjust as progress is seen or circumstances change.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between meetings, or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy into work, parenting, or medical schedules and make consistent care easier to maintain.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English