About Daniel
Daniel Gersten is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 22 years of experience. He helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, anger, and bipolar challenges. He offers straightforward support for worries like social anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and guilt or shame.
He works in a calm, respectful manner and focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. Sessions usually center on identifying what feels most overwhelming and trying manageable ways to cope.
Background and approach
He uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide that work rather than relying on untested ideas. Clients can expect a collaborative tone in sessions. He listens first, then suggests strategies that fit each person’s situation.
The aim is to build emotional awareness and stronger coping skills that can be used between meetings. His background includes long-term work with people facing substance use and immigration-related stress, along with trauma recovery. That experience shapes how he addresses relapse risk, triggers, and the practical aspects of recovery.
Daniel describes his role as walking alongside people through difficult moments while helping them find concrete choices and steps forward. He tailors the pace and focus to each person’s needs and priorities. Sessions are offered in English and use formats that fit busy lives.
He practices as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York and brings two decades of clinical experience to his work.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Daniel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety and trauma-related symptoms. One approach focuses on skills training to reduce anxiety and improve coping - teaching concrete breathing, grounding, and thought-management methods that can be practiced between sessions. Another approach concentrates on trauma recovery and post-traumatic stress, working to identify triggers, build tolerance for difficult memories, and develop safer responses to reminders.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, history, and comfort level. That may mean mixing skill-building with trauma work over several sessions and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more reachable. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or text sessions allow short check-ins and ongoing support between longer meetings. These options help people maintain consistency and access therapy from varied locations and schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
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Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English