Danielle Johnston, LPC

Danielle Johnston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She also supports people dealing with addiction, grief, body image concerns, and life transitions. Her approach pays close attention to everyday thoughts and habits that shape how someone feels and acts.

With 24 years of experience, Danielle offers a practical, coach-like style in sessions. She uses clear teaching, short exercises, and small tasks clients can try between meetings. The focus is on noticing unhelpful thinking, changing daily routines, and building skills that make life feel more manageable.

Danielle draws from several evidence-informed approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. She tailors methods to each person and sets goals together based on what matters most to them.

In sessions she aims to be warm, encouraging, and interactive. Clients can expect practical tools for calming the nervous system, managing emotions, and improving communication. Homework is framed as small, doable steps so progress can be noticed week to week.

Her work often targets patterns connected to abandonment, attachment wounds, codependency, dissociation, and eating or sleeping problems. Danielle emphasizes building self-worth and making concrete changes in daily habits to support those goals.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It focuses on small behavior changes and practical steps to live a more meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and offers concrete techniques to change patterns that drive anxiety or depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation and coping skills for intense states and relationship challenges.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your goals, preferences, and daily routines and suggest methods that fit. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to try and adjust them over time based on what helps most.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session options before booking since formats are not listed in the original biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, shorten check-ins when time is limited, or avoid travel. It can also let people practice skills in real-life settings between meetings. Licensed professionals adapt exercises, homework, and nervous-system regulation practices so progress can continue even when sessions are not in person.