Dannette Vest, LCSW

Dannette Vest is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than 13 years of clinical experience. She centers therapy on helping people understand themselves better and then use that awareness to make meaningful changes. Her manner is warm and grounded, aimed at making hard conversations feel manageable.

She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can look at patterns, behaviors, and memories that may be getting in the way. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking. The goal is to build healthier coping strategies and steady progress over time.

Her work draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She uses approaches such as Cognitive Processing Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy together with methods that address anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. These methods are selected to match the issue at hand and the person sitting in the room.

Dannette commonly helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, self-esteem concerns, and major life changes. She also works with issues tied to adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, communication struggles, divorce, and post-traumatic stress.

Therapy is treated as a collaboration in which the client’s pace and goals guide the work. She aims to walk alongside clients through both small shifts and deeper healing. Those interested in starting are invited to use the site's matching process to find a good fit.

Approaches that guide online work

Dannette uses evidence-based techniques to address trauma, stress, and relationship challenges. Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) helps people reframe and reduce the impact of traumatic memories by examining thoughts and beliefs tied to the event. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people accept difficult feelings while clarifying personal values and taking committed action toward those values.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clients decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and pace. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan can change when helpful.

If you want to do therapy online, confirm the session formats available before booking since formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a full office visit would be difficult. Some people prefer audio-only when bandwidth is limited, while others like video for face-to-face interaction; the therapist will discuss practical options and choose what works best for each person.