Danielle Michaelis Castillo Email & Phone Number

Danielle Michaelis Castillo is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and owner of Modern Counseling San Diego. She specializes in helping clients thrive, not just survive, in today's modern world. Danielle has provided consultation locally and state-wide for organizations such as the California Mental Health Authority and the AjA Project. In the past, Danielle worked in community college, social service, and government/military settings where she provided prevention, education, and behavioral health services. Danielle works collaboratively with clients to address life challenges, find creative solutions to problems, and build strong relationships. Clients describe her style as warm and collaborative, incorporating solution-focused and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for issues such as anxiety. Danielle's clinical focus is on issues related to anxiety and post-partum mood issuesPrior to entering the counseling field, Danielle worked as an artist, educator, and professional development coach within the culturally and socially diverse communities of San Diego. In 1996, as a commission for the San Diego Children’s Museum/Museo de los Niños, she worked with youth collaborators to reconstruct a teenager’s bedroom as the basis for examining a broad range of developmental, health and social issues. The project won a State of California Health Department grant and was redesigned to travel into high schools and community centers throughout San Diego County from 1997 – 1999. She continues to work as a coach in San Diego City Schools through the CoTA program, a comprehensive arts-integration professional development program.

Listed skills include Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Training, Cbt, and 30 others.