Meet your clinician
Daniel Munger, M.A.
Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern
Florida Registration No. IMH23473 · Supervised by Dr. April Brown, LMHC-QS #0968
Professional biography
Daniel Munger, M.A., is a Florida Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern with more than sixteen years of broad, hands-on experience across behavioral healthcare, addiction treatment, crisis intervention, clinical leadership, child welfare, forensic mental health, developmental disabilities, and residential and outpatient treatment settings.
Throughout his career, Daniel has worked with adults, adolescents, children, couples, families, court-involved individuals, and people experiencing complex combinations of mental-health, behavioral, social, and substance-use concerns. His clinical experience includes individual and group psychotherapy, couples and family engagement, biopsychosocial assessment, mental-status examination, suicide and homicide risk assessment, ASAM evaluation, treatment planning, crisis intervention, discharge planning, relapse prevention, and multidisciplinary care coordination.
Daniel has provided treatment across the full continuum of substance-use care, including medical detoxification, residential treatment, Partial Hospitalization Programs, Intensive Outpatient Programs, traditional outpatient care, and Medication-Assisted Treatment settings. He has extensive experience helping individuals affected by alcohol, opioid, stimulant, benzodiazepine, cannabis, prescription-drug, and polysubstance use, including people experiencing co-occurring mood, anxiety, trauma-related, personality, psychotic, and neurodevelopmental conditions.
His professional history also includes psychiatric crisis stabilization, child abuse and neglect investigations, emergency child-protection work, Drug Court collaboration, forensic behavioral-health treatment, Positive Behavior Support planning, developmental-disability services, and treatment of individuals with complex behavioral needs.
Daniel has served in clinical leadership roles involving therapist mentorship, staff development, documentation review, quality assurance, accreditation readiness, caseload management, crisis consultation, multidisciplinary coordination, and clinical operations. As a Lead Clinician, he helped guide therapists and support staff while contributing to substantial improvements in clinical-documentation compliance.
Supervisory Disclosure
Daniel Munger, M.A., is a Florida Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern, Registration No. IMH23473, practicing under the supervision of Dr. April Brown, LMHC-QS #0968. His current registration expires December 22, 2027.
- Supervisor
- Dr. April Brown
- Credentials
- LMHC-QS #0968
- Daniel's FL Registration
- IMH23473
- Registration Expires
- December 22, 2027
A Practical and Human Approach to Therapy
Daniel’s approach is practical, conversational, and grounded in real life. He has a talent for translating therapy language into examples, conversations, and tools that people can actually recognize and use in their everyday lives.
He does not believe therapy should feel like a lecture or require clients to speak in clinical terminology. His work begins with understanding what a behavior, reaction, or coping pattern has been doing for the person, not simply telling them to stop it.
Daniel is direct without being dismissive and compassionate without avoiding accountability. He helps clients look honestly at patterns, choices, relationships, and consequences while maintaining the belief that people are more than their diagnoses, past decisions, or most difficult chapters.
Therapy with Daniel is collaborative and conversational. Psychological concepts are connected to recognizable situations, real relationships, and the choices clients face outside the session. Insight matters most when it becomes usable in daily decisions, emotional regulation, relationships, recovery, and personal responsibility.
Daniel draws from approaches including:
- Person-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Trauma-informed care
- Relapse-prevention approaches
- Psychoeducation
- The Good Lives Model
These are clinical frameworks that inform Daniel’s work, not formal certifications or standalone specialties.
Recovery Is a Verb
“Recovery isn’t a noun. It’s a verb.”
Daniel believes recovery is not simply the absence of symptoms or substance use. It is reflected in a person’s daily choices, relationships, emotional regulation, sense of purpose, personal responsibility, and ability to participate meaningfully in life.
Daniel helps clients move beyond passive awareness toward practical application. His work emphasizes taking therapeutic principles out of the abstract and connecting them to the decisions, relationships, and challenges clients face in everyday life.
Experience Across the Behavioral-Health Continuum
A snapshot of the settings and clinical work that inform Daniel’s practice today. Past professional experience does not automatically mean each population or condition is accepted in this private telehealth practice. Current services are described on the services page.
Addiction and Co-Occurring Treatment
- Detoxification
- Residential treatment
- PHP
- IOP
- Outpatient care
- Medication-Assisted Treatment
- Relapse prevention
- Family engagement
Clinical Assessment and Treatment
- Biopsychosocial assessments
- Mental-status examinations
- Suicide and risk assessment
- ASAM evaluations
- Individual psychotherapy
- Group psychotherapy
- Treatment and discharge planning
Crisis and Complex Systems
- Psychiatric crisis stabilization
- Crisis intervention
- Child-welfare investigations
- Family Court and Drug Court collaboration
- Forensic behavioral healthcare
- Multidisciplinary care coordination
Clinical Leadership
- Therapist mentorship
- Staff development
- Documentation review
- Quality assurance
- Accreditation readiness
- Crisis consultation
- Clinical operations
Developmental and Behavioral Services
- Autism and developmental disabilities
- Positive Behavior Support
- Behavioral assessment
- Staff training
- Interdisciplinary treatment planning
The story behind the work
The Story Behind the Work
Daniel’s clinical perspective is also informed by lived experience. In The Invisible Standout, he writes candidly about addiction, identity, shame, accountability, resilience, and rebuilding a life from the inside out.
The book offers a deeper look at the experiences behind Daniel’s belief that people are more than the worst chapters of their lives and that lasting recovery is practiced through everyday choices, relationships, responsibility, and purpose.
The book is separate from the psychotherapy services provided through Dragonfly Behavioral Health.