About Danielle
Danielle DePalma is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York with more than 22 years of experience. She began her path with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and earned a master’s in social work. Danielle focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship concerns.
She uses straightforward, respectful conversation to learn what matters to each person. Sessions are shaped around practical needs and real-life goals.
Background and approach
Danielle adapts her approach when people face big life changes, career strain, or caregiving stress. Her work often includes helping people manage trauma, intimacy issues, and parenting challenges. She also offers support around adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, blended family matters, fertility and cancer-related stress.
Danielle pays attention to how past family relationships affect current life. Danielle blends several methods to match the situation. She draws on client-centered listening to understand priorities.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches to teach coping skills. In some cases she incorporates EMDR techniques for trauma work and the Gottman Method for relationship-focused conversations. Her style is direct but empathetic.
She aims to help people find clearer steps forward, build better daily routines, and reduce overwhelm. The first meetings focus on setting goals and making a practical plan to meet them.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. The therapist follows each person’s priorities and helps them name goals and next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and patterns and offers concrete strategies to change them, which can be practiced between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills useful for intense feelings and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review symptoms, goals, and preferences to recommend methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let the therapist and client read facial cues and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and day-to-day coaching between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and make it easier to keep regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English