About Dannette
Dannette Vest is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 13 years of clinical experience to sessions. She offers steady, clear guidance for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship strain, and big life changes. Her approach is warm and collaborative, focused on practical steps that fit each person’s pace and goals.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space to look honestly at patterns and responses that no longer serve someone. Conversations center on understanding how past experiences affect current feelings and choices.
Background and approach
From that clearer view, Dannette helps people try new ways of coping and relating. Dannette uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape practical plans. She draws on methods that address trauma, post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and relationship conflict.
Therapy sessions blend listening, reflection, and hands-on skills practice to build change that lasts. She also focuses attention on adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues, caregiver stress, communication breakdowns, divorce and separation, and other family-related concerns. Financial stress, isolation, multicultural questions, guilt, and forgiveness are included in her work when they come up.
Sessions may include individuals or couples who want clearer communication, better coping, or relief from intrusive memories and worries. Dannette works from North Carolina and conducts sessions in English.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Dannette uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions in clear, practical ways. Cognitive Processing Therapy focuses on how traumatic memories and beliefs shape current life and helps people rewrite harmful patterns that keep them stuck. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages noticing difficult thoughts and then choosing actions that match personal values, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client talk about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful in early sessions. Together they adjust techniques and pace so the work fits the person’s needs and values.
Online therapy with Dannette is offered by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when written reflection feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Delaware, Nevada, North Carolina, Arizona
- Languages
- English