Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
How Daniel works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- MD, LCPC, LPC
- Licensed in
- Maryland, Texas
- Years in practice
- 7
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Daniel
Daniel Cardenas offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by anger, anxiety, stress, or big life changes. He greets clients with respect and a calm, practical style that helps them start talking sooner. His first goal is to make the first step feel manageable and clear.
Daniel is a medical doctor and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, with seven years of practice. He works from Maryland and combines hands-on problem solving with empathetic listening.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped to match each person's needs and pace rather than following a rigid script. In sessions Daniel helps people name patterns that feed anger, stress, or low self-esteem. He uses techniques that focus on everyday coping - breathing and grounding, building clearer communication, and selecting actions that change how someone feels.
He also helps with sleep trouble, trouble concentrating, and career-related stress. He pays particular attention to how attachment, caregiver demands, or past trauma can keep someone stuck. For people facing compassion fatigue, first responder stress, immigration-related distress, or relationship pain, he helps sort priorities and set doable steps forward.
Daniel guides clients through practical skills and short-term strategies, while also making space to talk about deeper issues like shame, guilt, or life purpose. He encourages small experiments between sessions so progress is concrete and visible.
What Daniel works with
Everything Daniel lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Daniel's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Depression
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches and how online sessions help
Daniel uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical coping skills and emotional awareness. One approach emphasizes teaching concrete breathing, grounding, and pacing strategies to reduce intense anger and anxiety in the moment. These tools are useful for panic, stress spikes, and sleep disruption.Another approach centers on building communication and behavioral experiments. That involves small steps you try between sessions - trying a new way to talk about needs, or testing a change at work - and then reviewing what worked. This helps with relationship strain, career stress, and long-standing patterns that feed frustration.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Daniel will work with each person to match techniques to their goals, preferences, and the problems they bring. He adjusts plans as progress and feedback arrive so therapy stays focused on practical gains.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video helps when visual cues matter, phone can be a good fit for lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing skill practice between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or geographic limits while still getting consistent therapeutic support.
Questions people ask about Daniel
What concerns does he commonly help with?
He helps people struggling with anger, stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, sleep problems, ADHD symptoms, and issues around intimacy and relationships.
What is his therapy style like?
Daniel uses a practical, conversational style that focuses on clear coping skills and problem solving alongside listening and validation.
How much clinical experience does he have?
He has seven years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
What credentials and location should I know about?
He holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor, practicing from Maryland.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with him?
International clients are not currently accepted; he practices with clients located in the region he is licensed to serve.
What session formats are available?
He meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does cost and starting therapy work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session.