About Danica
Danica Bokal is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with eight years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and major life changes. She works with clients on career shifts, identity questions, relationship and family concerns, grief, and challenges like sleep, eating, and attention difficulties.
Danica is attentive to LGBT needs and brings a direct, compassionate style to sessions. She listens first to learn what matters to each person.
Background and approach
Then she combines practical skills teaching and talk therapy so clients can practice between sessions. Her approach mixes evidence-based strategies with an authentic, warm presence. Sessions are active and goal-focused while staying respectful and nonjudgmental.
Danica often uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people manage mood, thoughts, and behaviors. She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help clients clarify values and take meaningful actions. Attachment-based and client-centered ideas inform how she builds trust and explores relationship patterns.
In sessions she offers specific tools for coping with cravings, overwhelming anxiety, strong emotions, and relationship conflict. She helps people develop communication skills, structure, and healthier routines for sleep and eating. For those facing identity or intimacy questions, she provides a supportive space to talk through choices and next steps.
Clients who want practical, hands-on work will find a straightforward counselor who balances empathy with direction. Danica encourages small, steady steps toward a more fulfilling life and helps people use their own strengths along the way.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness in everyday life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods that fit the individual and adjust the plan as progress and needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for full conversations and skill practice, phone can fit brief check-ins or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep steady contact during life transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English