About Daphne
Daphne Jones-Gooden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, straightforward therapy that helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, ADHD-related concerns, mood struggles, and life transitions. Daphne speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel useful from the start.
She uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to help clients spot unhelpful thinking and find workable steps forward.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are also part of her toolbox for managing strong emotions and improving day-to-day functioning. Solution-Focused techniques help keep sessions goal-oriented and action-based. Daphne describes therapy as a partnership.
She works with each person to set clear goals and tries to match techniques to what will feel doable. Sessions often center on small changes that build into larger progress over time. Her background includes helping people with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, caregiver stress, self-esteem, and relationship and family tensions.
She also supports people dealing with bipolar disorder, depression, anger, and issues with impulsivity or obsessive thoughts. In a typical session Daphne will listen, help clarify priorities, teach simple coping skills, and work on practical strategies to manage symptoms. She offers a mix of short-term problem solving and longer-term support depending on what someone needs.
She encourages questions and keeps the focus on what the client wants to change.
Online approaches that match goals and life demands
Daphne uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thought patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood and to practice new, more helpful behaviors. CBT is useful when there are clear problems to change, like worry, negative self-talk, or unhelpful routines.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal responses. DBT skills can help when strong emotions, impulsivity, or intense relationships get in the way of day-to-day functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Daphne talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try methods that fit the person's life and adjust the plan as needed based on what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good for a full session that feels like being in the room. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a calmer setup is needed. Live chat and messaging are handy for quick check-ins, homework support, or shorter conversations between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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