Danielle Stivers, MD, LCPC

Danielle Stivers is a Maryland licensed clinician with 12 years of experience helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, or major life changes. She works with adults facing relationship strain, parenting stress, addiction concerns, grief, trauma, anger, and challenges like ADHD or bipolar symptoms. Danielle aims to make the first step less intimidating and more manageable.

She uses straightforward, practical approaches in sessions. Danielle listens closely and helps people identify what is getting in the way of daily functioning. Then she and the client choose small, realistic steps to try between meetings. Progress is tracked and adjusted over time so strategies stay useful.

Outside of therapy, Danielle combines mental health care with nutrition and fitness. She also works as a nutrition coach and personal trainer and brings that experience into treatment when clients want to address confidence, mood, or motivation through lifestyle change. Powerlifting is one of her personal interests and she finds physical goals can support mental well-being.

Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Sessions focus on practical skills, problem solving, and building coping tools. Danielle favors clear goals and collaborative planning so people leave sessions with things to try.

People who choose her often want help breaking patterns, improving communication, managing strong emotions, or rebuilding routine after setbacks. She combines talk-based work with concrete actions to help clients move forward.

How her approaches translate to online care

Danielle commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in sessions. CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and replaces them with small, testable changes that reduce anxiety or low mood. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting conversation that helps people clarify what matters to them.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, needs, and day-to-day realities. Together they set clear aims and try techniques that feel manageable in real life.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth work and practicing new skills, phone can be a shorter check-in when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat work well for quick updates or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.