About Destiny
Destiny Howell is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on somatic-informed work alongside practical talk therapy. She helps people manage depression, anxiety, relationship strain, and trauma in ways that connect body sensations and everyday choices. Destiny offers straightforward guidance aimed at improving self-esteem, communication, and life direction.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. That means moments of gentle body awareness, evidence-based thinking tools, and attention to attachment patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often combine breathing or grounding practices with clear problem-solving steps for stress and panic. Destiny has ten years of clinical experience in California as an LCSW. She draws on that background when supporting people through grief, caregiving stress, addictions, and compassion fatigue.
Her work also includes concerns like eating and sleeping problems, bipolar mood issues, and obsessive-compulsive patterns. Her practice is informed by respect for cultural identity and personal values. She creates a calm space where people can name painful feelings, notice how those feelings show up in the body, and try new ways of responding.
That practical focus supports daily functioning as well as longer-term growth. People connect with Destiny by selecting therapy options that fit their life. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based sessions so work can continue between meetings.
The process is collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness.
How Somatic and Mind-Based Approaches Work Online
Somatic-informed work brings attention to body sensations and simple grounding practices to help people notice how emotions show up physically. This approach can be useful for trauma, anxiety, panic, and stress when clients want tools to calm the body as well as the mind. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on identifying values and taking small, meaningful actions even when difficult feelings are present. It helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by shifting the focus toward what matters most.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful for their goals and day-to-day life. Choices are revisited as progress is made so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to practice skills between sessions, check in on progress, and fit therapy into a busy schedule. Licensed professionals can guide somatic exercises, coach values-based steps, and teach thinking tools in ways that work across different online formats.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English