About Danny
Danny El Hassan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues around self-esteem and identity. He also supports people facing ADHD, addictions, grief, sleeping problems, career stress, and coping with life changes. Danny practices in New York and offers sessions in English.
Danny uses a mix of approaches that fit each person's needs. He draws from client-centered work to keep the conversation focused on what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. He pays attention to deeper patterns too, using psychodynamic and existential ideas to help people gain insight into long-standing habits and meaning in their lives. Mindfulness and motivational strategies also appear in sessions when someone wants practical tools for mood, focus, or motivation.
Danny has three years of clinical experience and holds the LMHC credential in New York. He has worked with older adults and contributed to published research on LGBT elders and on micro-aggressions affecting people with disabilities. That background informs his attention to identity and life-stage concerns.
Sessions can be short-term problem-focused work or longer-term exploration. In conversation, he aims to build on strengths, clarify goals, and offer steps people can try between sessions. The tone is straightforward, respectful, and oriented toward practical change.
Approach and access: therapy methods and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience from their point of view and following their priorities in sessions. It helps when someone wants a supportive space to speak freely and identify their own goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, examines patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It offers concrete exercises and experiments to test new ways of coping with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, or unhelpful habits.
Existential ideas invite people to talk about meaning, values, and choices when life feels uncertain or empty. This approach can help those questioning identity, purpose, or major life transitions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and adjust those methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection matters. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between appointments or use shorter, focused contacts. These formats help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while working with licensed professionals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English