Danielle Cummings

Danielle Cummings is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with eight years of clinical work. She introduces herself as someone who wants to hear each person's story and sits alongside people as they find a path forward. Danielle draws on life experience as a partner and parent and on time spent living in other places to inform a broad, empathetic view of people and their struggles.

She describes the therapeutic relationship as a shared journey where the client directs the route and she rides alongside in the passenger seat. Danielle uses empathy, intuition, and practical listening to help people feel understood and to clarify goals they want to reach. Sessions aim to be warm and grounded rather than prescriptive.

Danielle has experience in community mental health, working with people across the lifespan from age 4 through older adulthood. That background exposed her to mood disorders, trauma and abuse, addictions, ADHD, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, and grief among other challenges. She says she seeks to understand diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and to support marginalized populations.

Her clinical approach draws from Trauma-Focused Therapy along with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Client-Centered principles, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. In practice she uses techniques such as mindfulness, solution-focused strategies, and skills-based interventions depending on what a person needs in the moment.

Danielle invites people who want to explore deep roots from childhood or who prefer to focus on present-day coping and relief. She emphasizes collaboration and will not push clients beyond what they are ready to face.

How Danielle’s Approaches Work Online

Danielle uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to help people process and move through the effects of past harm in manageable steps, focusing on safety and pacing rather than rushing into painful memories. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify personal values, and take small actions that align with what matters most. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people try new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Danielle treats the selection of methods as a collaborative process. She listens to current struggles and goals, then suggests techniques to try and adjusts them as needed so the work fits each person's life and pace.

Session formats are not specified in this profile, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people use approaches like mindfulness exercises, values work from ACT, and skills practice from CBT in real-life contexts between meetings. Talk with the therapist during the intake to decide what will fit best for timing and focus.