About Daniel
Daniel Thorne is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with three decades of experience. He focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and phobias. He aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can talk about what matters most to them.
He views therapy as a partnership. Sessions center on the client's goals, practical skills, and steady progress rather than jargon. Daniel often teaches breathing and mindfulness techniques that people can use between sessions to lower stress and ease worry.
Background and approach
He commonly uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical behavior ideas are used to build emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills. He also offers hypnotherapy as another option for addressing habits, fear responses, and focused relaxation.
Over thirty years in practice have given him experience with relationship and parenting concerns, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and the strains of divorce and separation. He also supports people facing loneliness, midlife transitions, money pressures, and fatherhood challenges. Daniel works with clients contending with substance use, self-harm, somatic symptoms, and trauma and abuse histories.
He is comfortable discussing LGBT concerns, social anxiety, and intimacy-related issues. Sessions are offered in English from California and he accepts international clients for online work.
Approaches for online therapy and practical tools
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and experiences. It means the therapist listens closely, reflects what is said, and helps people decide the next steps that fit their life. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort through worries and relationship concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and the behaviors they lead to. It often uses short exercises and homework tasks between sessions to reduce anxiety, treat depression, and tackle phobias. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, handling conflict, and tolerating distress without making things worse.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and daily routine. Changes are made together as needs and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls are useful for longer conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can fit short updates, quick coaching, or when writing helps someone think things through. Together these formats allow therapy to fit around work, caregiving, travel, or varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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