About Danielle
Danielle DiPrima is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, parenting strain, and self-esteem struggles. She emphasizes simple, human conversations that focus on practical steps people can take. Danielle uses clear direction and steady support to help people feel more able to manage day-to-day life.
She draws on four years of clinical experience and holds licenses as an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) and an LISW (Licensed Independent Social Worker).
Background and approach
Danielle offers straightforward work on body image, eating and food-related issues, post-traumatic stress, somatization, and concerns common to women and young adults. She also has experience with veteran and armed forces issues. In sessions she focuses on building coping skills, increasing self-love, and changing patterns that keep people stuck.
Conversations move between identifying triggers, practicing new responses, and checking what works in everyday settings. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Danielle frames therapy as collaborative problem solving.
She explains ideas plainly and helps people choose manageable steps. People often leave sessions with clear tools to try between appointments. Her practice is based in North Carolina and she conducts sessions in English.
Danielle uses evidence-based methods to address eating disorders, trauma-related symptoms, and stress, shaping each plan around the person’s current needs and goals.
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Danielle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at reducing symptoms and improving daily functioning. One common approach focuses on skill building for stress and anxiety management - teaching breathing, grounding, and activity planning to reduce overwhelm and increase routine. These skills help when worry or stress interfere with work, sleep, or parenting.Another area of work addresses trauma-related symptoms and post-traumatic stress by helping people name reactions, practice gentle self-soothing, and experiment with new ways of responding to triggers. This approach targets intrusive memories, hyperarousal, and body-based symptoms like somatization. A third practical strand targets eating and body image concerns by unpacking patterns around food, exploring thoughts about the body, and creating small behavior experiments to shift unhelpful cycles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Danielle will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts plans as progress unfolds so the therapy remains useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone is good when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing skills practice. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Body image
- Eating and food-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Iowa
- Languages
- English