About Danielle
Danielle (Dani) Spolarich is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 16 years of experience in Minnesota. She focuses on helping adults who are struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, and major life changes. Dani listens closely and helps people sort through problems in simple, practical steps.
She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies and solution-focused work to help clients identify unhelpful patterns and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Dani also uses trauma-focused methods and motivational interviewing when those tools fit the client's goals. Sessions are conversational and goal-directed, with an emphasis on small, achievable changes. Dani often helps people address relationship patterns, work-related stress, parenting strain, grief, and challenges connected to chronic health issues.
She also supports people facing substance use concerns, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue from caregiving roles. Her practice includes attention to self-esteem, sleeping problems, anger, and coping with life transitions. In session she works collaboratively to set clear goals and track progress.
Clients can expect practical strategies they can try between meetings, and gentle attention to how past experiences affect current choices. Dani adapts pace and focus to each person's needs and preferences. She conducts therapy in English and sees people who live in Minnesota.
Sessions may be scheduled in a format that works for the client, and Dani will discuss options and next steps during the initial matching process.
How Dani’s Approaches Work Online
Danielle uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help people spot and change patterns that contribute to anxiety, low mood, sleep trouble, or difficulty managing ADHD symptoms. CBT focuses on testing small behavior or thinking changes and measuring how those shifts affect daily life.She also draws on motivational interviewing to help people resolve mixed feelings about change. That method involves asking focused questions, reflecting what the client says, and supporting gradual steps toward a chosen goal. Solution-focused techniques are used to identify concrete goals and practical steps to reach them quickly.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Dani will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then decide together which methods to try first. She adjusts plans as progress is made or priorities shift so therapy stays relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video can support face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, written coaching, and flexible timing between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent despite busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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