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Welcome! I’m Vivian Daniel, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, and South Carolina. By providing a safe and supportive environment that is welcoming, reassuring, and affirming, I help people journey towards feeling understood, recognizing their strengths, and discovering skills to improve their lives. Types of therapy I utilize include Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Somatic Approaches, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion.

Both my personal and professional experiences have shaped my work as a therapist.

My personal experience includes growing up as a child of Taiwanese immigrants, living overseas in Europe as an adult, advocating for social justice, and parenting my teens.

My professional experience includes providing individual, family, and group counseling at Duke University Medical Center, Elon University Counseling Center, the State of North Carolina area mental health program, and multiple behavioral health agencies, as well as providing clinical training and supervision to mental health clinicians and as a field instructor supervising graduate school degree seeking trainees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. I completed my Bachelors in Psychology and my Masters in Social Work with a Mental Health concentration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am also a Certified Clinical Supervisor for masters level social workers.

Outside of the office you can find me reading, walking in the woods, taking road trips, watching sci-fi shows and movies, and exploring new restaurants.

 
 

Highlighted Education and Training

  • Masters degree, clinical mental health focus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Bachelors degree, psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • North Carolina LCSW

  • Georgia LCSW

  • Illinois LCSW

  • Florida LCSW (telehealth)

    https://flhealthsource.gov/telehealth/

  • South Carolina LISW (telehealth) https://llr.sc.gov/TeleHealth/SocialWork.html

  • Intensive training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

  • Level 1 Immersion training in AEDP with Dr. Diana Fosha (founder of AEDP)

  • Certification training in Clinical Supervision of mental health providers

  • Additional trainings completed:

    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    • Asian American Mental Health

    • Applying a Social Justice Lens to Therapy

    • Using Somatic Approaches to Treat Internalized Oppression

    • Legacy of Trauma

    • Health at Every Size Approach to Disordered Eating

    • Racial Trauma

    • Cultural Differences within Asian Immigrant Families

    • Self-Care for Black Clients during Black Lives Matter

    • Having Conversations about Race with Children

    • Treatment Strategies for Suicide Prevention

    • Strategies for Adult ADHD

    • Building Resilience in a Social Media World

    • Sex Positive Therapy

    • Liberation Health Model

    • Antiracist Applications to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

    • Integrative Treatments to Eating Disorders

    • Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS)

    • Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma

    • Affirming Care for Ethical and Consensual Non-Monogamy

    • Perinatal and Maternal Mental Health

    • Using Motivational Interviewing in Providing Clinical Supervision

    • Needs and Diversity of South Asian Clients

    • Trauma Informed Care in Young Adults

    • Treating Trauma and Eating Disorders Concurrently

    • Culturally Compassionate Care for LGBTQIA+ Individuals

    • How to Help Young Women Rescue their Self-Esteem

    • Trauma and Eating Disorders: Using Cognitive Processing Therapy

    • Mind-Centered Approach to Narcissistic Abuse

    • Emotional Freedom Technique

    • Helping College Students Who are Not Ok

    • Intersection of Gender and Neurodiversity

    • Neurobiology of Trauma and Efficacy of EMDR

    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Treatment of Insomnia

    • Helping Parents During or After their Child’s Suicidal Ideation or Attempt

    • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy with Applications to Racialized and Other Relational Developmental Trauma

    • Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    • Harm Reduction Psychotherapy for Problem Substance Use

    • Navigating Fear with Compassion

    • Eating Disorders Through the Neurodivergent Lens

    • Somatic Approach to Trauma Healing

    • Tailoring DBT Skills to Meet Neurodivergent Needs

    • Understanding PTSD in Immigrant Populations

    • Narcissism

    • Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Informed Care

    • Unpacking In-Law Baggage with South Asian Clients

    • Cognitive Behavioral Conjoint Therapy for PTSD

    • Addressing Sexual Intimacy with Couples

    • CBT for Adult ADHD: Turn Intentions into Actions

    • How to Be an Anti-Diet Clinician

    • Eco Anxiety

    • Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety and ADHD

    • Superpower and Burden of Masking in Autism

    • Complex Intersection of OCD and Eating Disorders

    • Broadening the Lens on Relational Trauma and Developmental Trauma

    • Eating Disorders in the BIPOC Community

    • Intersection of Autism and OCD

    • Motivational Interviewing with Groups

    • Malnourished Minds: Exploring Suicide in Anorexia Nervosa

    • Cognitive-Behavior Therapy-Enhanced for Eating Disorders

    • Pregnancy Loss and Grief

    • Voting as a Social Determinant of Health

    • Reconstructing and Redefining Reality through Narrative Therapy

    • Identifying and Supporting Patients with Racial Trauma

    • How to Treat Chronic Digestive Disorders