About Daniel
Daniel Childs is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 12 years of clinical experience. He works with people facing stress and anxiety and offers a warm, down-to-earth presence from the first session. Daniel aims to make initial contact feel welcoming and straightforward for those who are nervous about starting therapy.
He helps people with a wide range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and family difficulties, and issues related to sexual identity.
Background and approach
He also supports people dealing with addictions, sleep and eating issues, anger, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Daniel lists experience with ADHD, bipolar and depression among his focus areas, and he is familiar with complex topics such as attachment and adoption and foster care. Daniel draws on client-centred work to keep the conversation focused on each person’s experience.
He also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different strategies. When trauma is part of the story he applies trauma-focused approaches alongside psychodynamic ideas to understand how past events influence present feelings. Sessions are offered in English and Daniel accepts international clients.
He is experienced in holding sensitive conversations and aims to create practical steps people can use between sessions. His style is approachable and straightforward, with an emphasis on listening first and planning next steps together. If someone wants to begin, they are encouraged to use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to arrange a session.
How Daniel’s approaches work online
Daniel often uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help people spot unhelpful thought patterns and test out new ways of responding. CBT is practical and goal-focused, and it can be helpful for anxiety, stress, sleep problems and mood concerns.He also works from a client-centred position, which means sessions begin with listening and understanding the person’s priorities. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes the work to fit their needs. For people affected by past harm, he uses trauma-focused methods to address how traumatic events continue to affect daily life.
Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. Daniel aims to collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their needs and goals, and he adapts plans as progress is made. He discusses options openly so clients understand why a particular method is being used.
Online therapy offers practical advantages for this kind of work. Video calls let people talk face to face when meeting in person is hard. Phone sessions or live chat can fit into a busy day and need less bandwidth. Text-based messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and flexible around life commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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