About Daniel
Daniel Silverstein is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and depression. He speaks plain language and aims to make conversations approachable for worried parents and busy adults. Daniel presents himself with a calm, relaxed manner and a positive outlook that helps people feel at ease from the first contact.
He favors an open, nonjudgmental environment where clients can talk about thoughts and feelings without fear of criticism.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and practical, with an emphasis on real-world changes clients can try between appointments. Daniel listens for what matters most to each person and adapts his approach to those priorities. With nine years as a licensed mental health counselor, he has worked with many people facing common life stresses and mood concerns.
That experience includes addressing issues such as abandonment concerns, attachment difficulties, body image, chronic illness and pain, and problems with communication and commitment. He also supports people coping with divorce, separation, substance use, and recovery from domestic violence. Daniel uses a mix of methods drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment practices, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered work.
That combination lets him focus on changing unhelpful thoughts, building values-based habits, and strengthening emotional awareness. He helps people set small, manageable goals and checks in on progress over time. People who prefer a relaxed, straightforward style tend to find his approach helpful.
He invites questions and works collaboratively to figure out what will help most in day-to-day life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Daniel draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often focuses on small experiments and practical exercises that reduce anxiety and lift mood.He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which encourages people to clarify their values and take steps toward them even when uncomfortable feelings appear. ACT is useful for chronic worry, avoidance, and building meaningful routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Daniel treats therapy as a collaborative process and will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. He may blend methods so the plan fits each person’s needs and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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