About Danielle
Danielle McDonaugh offers a relational and human-centered approach to therapy. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in New York with ten years of clinical experience. Danielle focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, and issues related to identity and intimacy.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early connections shape current relationships. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find and strengthen their own reasons for change.
Background and approach
Internal Family Systems helps her guide clients in talking with different parts of themselves when feelings feel overwhelming. Danielle has worked in community clinics, school-based mental health settings, homebound care, and telehealth. Those varied settings inform how she adapts sessions to each person's life and needs.
She aims to meet people where they are and to respect each person’s unique story. In sessions she combines relational-humanistic listening with practical strategies from other approaches. People can expect a respectful, warm tone and help deciding whether to focus on insight, symptom relief, or both.
Danielle emphasizes collaboration and tailoring work to what feels most useful. She supports people dealing with grief, addictions, sleep difficulties, parenting strain, anger, and LGBT-related challenges. Therapy is offered in English and provided through multiple online formats to fit different schedules and preferences.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape present-day patterns. In online sessions this approach helps people notice how they relate to others and to the therapist, and it can be useful for relationship stress and intimacy concerns.Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-focused style that helps people find their own reasons to change. It is practical for issues like addictions, work stress, or making health and sleep routine changes because it focuses on small, doable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. Clients and therapist make decisions together and can shift course as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation when deeper connection is helpful. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a screen break is needed. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when shorter, more frequent contact fits a schedule.
These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work consistently across changing circumstances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English