Danelle Locklear, LCSW

Danelle Locklear is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), a license to provide clinical mental health services in North Carolina, who brings a client-centered approach to therapy. With five years of experience, she focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, and a wide range of life transitions. She also works with issues related to intimacy, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting, anger, self-esteem, career challenges, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.

Danelle emphasizes each person’s strengths and capacities rather than defining them by a diagnosis or limitation. She adapts treatment to the individual’s needs and goals, using evidence-based methods such as client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies when appropriate. Her work includes addressing attachment and communication problems, chronic pain or illness, substance-related concerns, domestic violence, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, and questions about life purpose or midlife change.

She aims to create a collaborative therapeutic relationship that supports practical coping skills, clearer decision making, and steady progress toward the client’s personal aspirations.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Danelle Locklear integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s perspective and building on their strengths to support growth and self-directed change. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical techniques to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. She also uses mindfulness therapy to help clients develop present-moment awareness and stress-reduction skills that can support anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with chronic challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Danelle collaborates with each client to choose methods that fit their goals, values, and preferences. She tailors interventions over time, combining strategies when beneficial to meet changing needs and priorities.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, access support from home, and maintain continuity of care when life changes occur, while still working with licensed professionals who guide treatment collaboratively.