Danielle Skelly Therapy, PLLC

A supportive space for healing, connection, and change.

Therapy should offer more than symptom relief, it should provide a space to slow down, feel understood, and make sense of the patterns, experiences, and relationships that shape your life.

My work with individuals, couples, and families is grounded in curiosity, compassion, and a relational approach that supports meaningful, lasting change.

My Approach

I’m Danielle Skelly, a licensed marriage and family therapist working with military and civilian individuals, couples, and families. As a trauma-informed therapist, ally, military spouse of 16 years, and mother, I bring both clinical experience and personal understanding to the work I do. My goal is to create a space where clients feel welcomed, at ease, and truly seen—with a warm, personable approach that fosters connection, safety, and meaningful change.

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About Me as a Therapist

While in graduate school, I fell in love with individual work too. Working with teens, young adults, and individuals broadened my clinical experience in ways I didn’t fully expect. It deepened my understanding of trauma, identity, anxiety, life transitions, and the many ways people carry pain both inside themselves and inside their relationships. That work helped shape the therapist I am and reinforced something I believe strongly: People don’t come to therapy because they're broken. They come because they've been carrying too much, for too long.

One of the greatest privileges of my work is helping people recognize that they already possess far more strength, resilience, and capacity for change than they often realize. Whether I’m working with an individual, a couple, or a family, I’m always paying attention to the bigger picture: your relationships, your history, your environment, your patterns, and the story underneath the struggle.

My approach to therapy is integrative, which is a fancy way of saying I’ve trained in a lot of different modalities and have a pretty full toolbox to draw from. I don’t believe in cookie-cutter therapy. I believe therapy should be tailored to you and your goals, your personality, your relationships, your values, and what actually feels useful in your life. Some clients need space to process. Some need help untangling patterns. Some need practical tools. Some need a therapist who can hold both compassion and accountability in the same room. Most people need a little of all of it.

What you can expect from me is that I’ll show up fully. I work hard for my clients, and I care deeply about helping people move toward the life and relationships they want. I’m warm, relational, trauma-informed, and very human in the therapy room. I’m also naturally funny, and yes, I will absolutely consider it a personal victory if I can help you laugh somewhere along the way. Therapy is meaningful work, and sometimes very hard work—but I don’t believe it has to feel cold, stiff, or overly clinical to be effective.

My hope is that when you work with me, you feel welcomed, at ease, and genuinely connected in the space we create together. I want therapy to feel like a place where you can show up honestly—without having to perform, minimize, or pretend you have it all together. I want you to know how wanted you are here, how much I respect the courage it takes to begin, and how glad I am that you found your way to this page.

If you’re ready to get the ball rolling, I’d be honored to connect with you.

Allow me to introduce myself

I was born and raised in Western New York. The second daughter of four to an Italian-American family. Though my husband, children, and I are happy to live in beautiful North Carolina, our families all still reside in New York, and this is where I call home. My husband and I met in college there and before long the military whisked us away to different states and even another country. Along the way, we built our family and now have four children. After 16 years as a military spouse, I feel deeply connected to and honored to serve the military community.

But I also want to be honest about what that life has looked like.

Military life, combined with all the other things people inevitably carry into a relationship, brought its fair share of challenges to our family and marriage over the years. There were seasons that stretched us, tested us, and absolutely pushed us to our limits. That lived experience is a big part of what shaped me—not only as a person, but as a therapist. It gave me a deep respect for the complexity of relationships, the weight families can carry, and the resilience people often don’t even realize they have.

I’ve always felt called to serve others. Even in college, I considered pursuing drama therapy during my undergraduate years. As time went on, that desire never really left. Instead, it grew. Over the years, I poured myself into volunteer work, family readiness groups, and supporting military families in whatever ways I could. After the birth of our fourth child, I made the decision to apply to graduate school—and I’m so glad I did.

I chose to pursue Marriage and Family Therapy specifically because I wanted to work with the very systems that shape so much of our lives: our relationships, our families, the patterns we inherit, the ways we communicate, disconnect, repair, and sometimes struggle to find our way back to one another. I wanted to support couples and families facing the kinds of stressors and relational challenges my own family had experienced. I wanted to continue serving—but in a way that allowed me to sit with people more deeply in their hardest moments.

Licensure, Clinical Training & Modalities

Licensed to Practice in Tennessee

and North Carolina

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Gottman Method
Imago Relationship Therapy
Trauma-Informed CBT
Written Exposure Therapy
Motivational Interviewing
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Sand Tray Therapy

Services & Rates

Danielle Skelly Therapy, PLLC is a private-pay practice, allowing therapy to be tailored to your goals rather than insurance requirements. Payment is made at the time of service. If you have out-of-network benefits, I'm happy to provide a superbill that you can submit to your insurance company for possible reimbursement. Because every plan is different, I encourage you to contact your insurance carrier to learn more about your out-of-network mental health benefits.