Danielle Thorpe, MA
Danielle Thorpe is a Primary Therapist at Center for Healthy Sex. She is passionate about helping individuals and couples explore patterns of self-worth, attachment, intimacy, and relational dynamics with curiosity, compassion, and depth. Her work is grounded in trauma-informed care and a relational, psychodynamic approach that emphasizes insight, emotional regulation, and meaningful connection.
Danielle brings both clinical training and lived experience to her work. She is sober in long-term recovery and has seen firsthand how the integration of 12-step work and psychotherapy can support profound healing and personal transformation. She has a particular interest in working with individuals navigating shame, people-pleasing, relational trauma, addiction, and identity development, as well as couples seeking deeper intimacy and healthier communication.
Danielle holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Cornell University, a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University. Her background in performance and storytelling informs a warm, attuned therapeutic presence and a deep respect for the complexity of human experience. She completed her clinical training at Maple Counseling and is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the Group Psychotherapy Association of Los Angeles.
AMFT #157486
APCC #20422
Supervised by Robert Mendelsohn, LMFT #39142
All of our clinicians specialize in sex, love and porn addiction treatment, betrayal trauma and sex therapy. Primary therapists at CHS facilitate our intensives, workshops and coaching programs as well as our recovery support groups and are all trained in the Katehakis Integrative Sex Therapy Model (KIST).