Danielle McDonaugh , LCSW

Danielle McDonaugh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), a credential that indicates specialized training to provide clinical therapy. With ten years of experience, she provides individual and family therapy for clients ages eight through adulthood who face concerns such as anxiety, depression, relationship and family difficulties, work-related stress, traumatic or adverse experiences, and LGBTQ-related challenges. She approaches each therapeutic relationship with compassionate curiosity and respect for the person’s unique experience, aiming to offer warmth, comfort, and steadiness as clients work toward change.

Her clinical background includes work in community clinics, telehealth, homebound therapy, and school-based mental health settings, which informs a broad understanding of how environment and life circumstances shape wellbeing. Danielle frames much human suffering as understandable reactions to painful conditions and seeks to normalize clients’ responses while helping them regain function and resilience.

Her style is eclectic, drawing from relational-humanistic, cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, and motivational interviewing approaches. She collaborates with clients to determine which methods best suit their goals, whether the focus is gaining insight, easing symptoms, or improving day-to-day functioning. Danielle aims to listen closely, tailor treatment to individual needs, and support people as they move toward a more fulfilling life.

Integrating Attachment and Internal Work in Online Therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape patterns of connection and emotional regulation. It helps people understand and shift the ways they relate to others and to themselves when attachment wounds influence present-day stress and relationship challenges. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-directed style that helps people explore and resolve ambivalence about change; it can be especially helpful for increasing motivation around behavior change and commitment to treatment. Internal Family Systems works with the different parts or voices inside a person, helping them develop more compassionate leadership from their core self and heal parts that hold pain or protective roles.

Danielle approaches finding the right method as a collaborative process. She listens to a client’s concerns, goals, and preferences and then helps determine which approaches or combination of techniques will best support progress. The choice of method evolves with the work and the needs that emerge over time.

Online therapy with Danielle is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility to fit busy schedules and varying comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, access therapists from different locations within her licensure, and engage in therapy in ways that feel most practical and effective for each person.