LPC, 5 years of experience
New to Grow
Hello, I’m Danielle LaPrade, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Connecticut and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Rhode Island. During the week, I also work as a salaried school therapist with younger children (kindergarten through second grade). I have extensive experience in parent-coaching, child interactive therapy, and ensuring that remote sessions are both enjoyable and beneficial. Often, the work that occurs with remote families stems from practices that I teach in sessions through psychoeducation, role-play, application, and observations. This is just one form of therapy, and the approach truly depends on the needs and development of your children, your family, and you. I have experience working with trauma, teens, self-harm, suicidal ideations, bullying, relationships, toxic stress, and more.
In session #1, I’ll take a look at your entire intake packet, which includes any past treatment, emergency records, and contact information. I’ll also go over your medical, mental, and social history. The first session will be mostly structured, with a set of questions to make sure we’re covering all the legal and ethical bases and that we’re following up on your presenting problem, symptoms, and any ailments you’ve had or haven’t had treated. Once we’ve made some disclosures, we’ll get a preliminary diagnosis, which will help us get your insurance to cover it. Keep in mind that this diagnosis is just a starting point and can change as we gather more information during a full psychosocial assessment, which will be about 2-to-3 hours long (depending on what you’re looking for, how much time you’ve got, how serious the conditions are, and other factors).
I chose to become a Licensed Professional Counselor because I possess empathy, warmth, understanding, and strength. Throughout my life, I’ve consistently been kind and have found ways to make money both meaningful and fulfilling. This has enabled me to thrive and spread positivity.
To make “me time” a reality, motivation and self-care are key. If you’ve got even one of these, we can work together to reach your team goals. I’m here to support you every step of the way, and I’m especially interested in finding clients who connect with me but can thrive without needing to know my past. I believe that self-disclosure in my practice is minimal for me! i am all ears!
In sessions, I will listen to you and encourage you to speak you will feel fully heard. We will search for an evident part of the feelings and then we will challenge how the lack of evidence or the assumption leads to concrete evidence which is the fatal part of not exploring thinking patterns with a therapist. We call this stinkin, thinkin, catatrosphic thinking, fortune telling, and the many other lessions amount to with me a psychoeducation on what the principles are, and then homework on how to self-assess those, and finally the evident part that we can use together to help build a more open personal life which your guards can be down and your social life and friends can see the difference in newfound confidence.
As a therapist I use a combination of theories such as CBT, Psychodynamic Therapy, Reality Therapy, Personal-Centured, Psychotherapy is always trauma-informed and often is pulled from a variety of my educational experiences and theoretical foundations. Eclectic pulls from existenial thought, psychodynamic and psychoanalytic, to more of the modern day approaches like substance use motivational therapy, reality and person-centered.
I use family therapy modalities such as IFS, Gottman Method, and couples therapy. Skilled from experiences with couples, reunification process and also have additional work with kids who have lost there mom to internal issues, working with foster kids and also couples who gave kids on the way. I have a diverse set of profiles when it comes online to what therapy is effective and I would commonly prescribe this for mother/daughter or son/couples/smaller issues that do not require more than one identified patient. For example, you have two children and your kids are doing poorly in school due to what you feel is the peer pressure of the divorce(so you could be experiencing your own anxiety and loss, anger, and fear of the kids having problems could lead to you being the identified patient. If coaching in parenting and therapy skills and techniques can aid practices taught, bringing in family consult since you being parent are allowed to have people in your session. That meaning this is a therapy technique that is often structured family therapy/eclectic therapy.