About Daniela
Daniela Schirmer is a BACP counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief and relationship difficulties. She offers a calm, supportive place to talk when life feels overwhelming or confusing. Daniela works with people who are coping with loss, trauma, addiction, career strain and changes in close relationships.
She takes an integrative approach, drawing on different therapy styles to suit each person. Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and on practical steps that can ease day-to-day distress.
Background and approach
Daniela pays attention to how people relate to others and to themselves, and she explores patterns that repeat in relationships. Her practice includes work informed by attachment ideas, emotionally-focused approaches and cognitive behavioural techniques. These methods can help with understanding emotional triggers, improving communication and changing unhelpful thought habits.
Daniela adapts her way of working to match a person’s pace and preferences. With six years of experience in independent practice and online work, she blends talking therapies with creative and process-oriented tools when useful. People can expect a respectful, relational style where feeling understood matters as much as practical change.
Sessions aim to be realistic and grounded in everyday life. Daniela offers therapy in English and Portuguese from the United Kingdom. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging as ways to connect.
Information about fees varies by location and is managed through a subscription model that clients can cancel at any time.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and on how early bonds shape current connection and trust. It can help people understand why they react strongly in relationships and develop different ways of relating.Client-centred therapy emphasises being listened to without judgement and meeting the person where they are. This approach suits people who need a steady, empathetic space to make sense of feelings and choices.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, low mood and problems that involve repetitive thinking.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Daniela will discuss different methods with the client and decide together what feels most helpful based on their goals and preferences. Therapy is shaped collaboratively and can shift as needs change.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video lets therapists observe expressions and tone, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when in-person meetings are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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