About Daniel
Daniel Klinkert is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience helping people navigate addiction, trauma, anxiety, and major life changes. He uses a client-centered style that focuses on each person’s strengths and goals. Daniel holds an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) and a LICSW and practices in Oregon.
He draws on personal experience as a trauma survivor and someone in recovery to inform his work. That background shapes how he listens and how he helps people build new coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions include straightforward conversation, goal-setting, and practical tools to manage stress and cravings. Over his career Daniel has provided more than 10,000 hours of individual and group psychotherapy. He has worked in clinical roles for many years, led a professional training company, and contributed to research on psychosocial rehabilitation.
That varied experience guides his flexible way of working with clients. His focus areas include depression, anxiety, chemical dependency and process addictions, trauma-related concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. He also addresses attachment and abandonment themes, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and communication or commitment difficulties.
In sessions Daniel blends practical strategies from cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness approaches with skills from dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing. He aims to build a strong working relationship and to help people apply their strengths toward steady change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and letting the client guide goals and pace. This approach helps when someone needs support sorting feelings, building trust, and deciding what to work on first.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In sessions clients learn simple tools to change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many practical goals.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotion, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. It teaches grounding, emotion regulation, and clear communication techniques that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. That may mean mixing techniques and adjusting over time as progress is made.
Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible. Video calls are good for full conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit a lunch break or low-bandwidth locations. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and reminders between appointments. These options help people keep continuity of care and fit therapy into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English