About Danita
Danita Thompson is a licensed social worker with 30 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and the daily strain of relationships. Danita listens first and helps clients find clear, doable steps forward.
She uses straightforward conversations to help people build self-esteem and stronger coping skills. Sessions focus on practical changes clients can try between meetings. Danita also supports people facing grief, trauma, addiction concerns, and life transitions such as divorce or career shifts.
Background and approach
Her work blends collaborative talking with tools drawn from cognitive and behavioral methods, mindfulness, and motivational techniques. Clients learn to notice thought patterns, practice new behaviors, and use simple grounding and breathing strategies. The pace and focus change to match each person’s goals.
Danita brings a values-informed perspective that may include Christian themes when clients want that included. She aims to create a warm, respectful space where people can talk through painful memories and clarify what matters to them now. Based in Michigan, Danita offers care for those exploring identity, purpose, and relationship challenges.
She often helps people facing workplace stress, parenting strain, and issues around intimacy, impulsivity, or self-worth.
How Danita's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead; the therapist offers empathy and reflection so clients can clarify their values and goals. This approach helps people who need space to make sense of feelings and decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include simple exercises to try between meetings, such as noticing unhelpful thoughts and experimenting with alternative actions to reduce anxiety or low mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness can be taught and practiced over video or text and then applied in daily life.
Finding the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about presenting concerns, goals, and preferences, then suggest approaches to try. This is a collaborative process with room to adjust based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and practicing skills together. Phone sessions work well when video is not possible or when a lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or paced processing between sessions. Together these formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while continuing focused therapeutic work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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