About Daniel
Daniel Bierma is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) based in Michigan. He helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, addiction, relationship strain, grief, and career or life changes. He uses a straightforward, listening-first approach to help clients find practical ways forward.
He brings seven years of formal therapy experience built on decades of work in schools, hospice, and community settings. That background means he is familiar with child behavior, foster care, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment questions, and family-of-origin issues.
How Daniel works
He aims to make sessions feel welcoming and nonjudgmental. In sessions he listens, observes, and asks questions to clarify what matters most to each person. He focuses on concrete steps clients can try between meetings.
He helps people set goals and track small changes that add up over time. His approach draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral tools, emotionally-focused work, and existential questions about meaning and values. Those methods are used to address things like self-esteem, coping skills, communication problems, and commitment issues.
People coming to therapy can expect a calm presence and a practical focus on what they want to change. He encourages clients to name a reason for coming and then works alongside them to reach that goal.
Daniel lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Daniel works with
The areas below are the ones Daniel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How his approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and how repairing those patterns can improve closeness and trust; it can help with abandonment, attachment issues, and family-of-origin wounds. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and helping people find their own answers; it suits clients who need a nonjudgmental place to sort feelings and make decisions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thinking and practice different behaviors through short exercises and experiments between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining listening-focused work with practical CBT tools or exploring values and meaning alongside emotion-focused exercises.
Confirm the current session options before booking because the biography does not list specific formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a tight schedule calls for it. Many people also find it simpler to continue consistent work through appointments that fit into everyday life, and therapists can adapt exercises and homework to whatever session setup is used.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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