Danielle Dessaso, LPC

Danielle Dessaso is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with four years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, self-esteem, motivation, and coping with life changes. Danielle emphasizes that each person knows their story best and brings strengths into the work. She encourages people who are taking the first steps toward therapy and recognizes that asking for help takes courage.

In sessions Danielle aims to create straightforward, practical conversations. She listens for what matters most and helps people break worries into manageable steps. Clients can expect help sorting priorities, building confidence, and finding ways to handle new or stressful situations. The tone in her work is warm and direct, with a focus on real-life changes rather than abstract talk.

Danielle draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address anxiety, attention differences such as ADHD, and midlife transitions. She pays attention to how thoughts, daily habits, and relationships interact. Together with clients she identifies clear goals and tries simple experiments to test what helps in daily life.

Her additional areas of focus include body image, caregiving stress, commitment and communication issues, forgiveness, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, money matters, multicultural concerns, pregnancy and childbirth, prejudice and discrimination, self-love, social anxiety, and women’s issues. These topics often come up when people work through major life changes.

Danielle offers therapy in English and practices from Virginia. To begin, people follow the site’s Start Therapy flow to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on therapist availability.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online work

Danielle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on what people can do differently in daily life. One common approach she uses helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new ways of responding to stress and anxiety. This approach is useful for worry, social anxiety, and building self-esteem.

Another frequent emphasis is behavioral change - breaking larger problems into small actions. That can include building routines for attention and motivation, testing new communication habits, or practicing short experiments to see what improves mood and function. These steps are concrete and easy to bring into everyday routines.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. Clients and the therapist check progress and adapt the plan as needed.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it simpler to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Some people find online sessions easier to keep during work breaks or when coordinating caregiving, while others prefer longer meetings for deeper work. The therapist will discuss which format best supports each person’s goals.