About Danielle
Danielle (Dani) McTernan is a counsellor and psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and has four years of experience working with online clients and in independent practice. Dani meets people with warmth and curiosity and aims to create a respectful space for honest conversation.
Her style is friendly and non-judgemental. She works at each person's pace and focuses on what the person brings to the room.
Background and approach
Dani says people are the experts on their own story and she helps them use their strengths to make meaningful choices. Dani uses an integrative and existential outlook in sessions. She is interested in the big human questions that affect everyday life, such as how to manage anxiety, how to find meaning and how to make decisions when outcomes are uncertain.
This informs short-term tools and longer-term reflection alike. Her work commonly addresses anxiety, stress, depression and issues around self-esteem, grief and trauma. She also supports people facing parenting strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, chronic health challenges and career stress.
Additional focus areas include ADHD, compassion fatigue and identity-related matters such as adoption, attachment and neurodiversity. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, and Dani meets people from different countries. She aims to be flexible and patient, helping clients explore their present choices and future goals in a way that feels authentic to them.
How Dani’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on values and practical steps. It helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then take actions that match what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at thought and behaviour patterns and teaches skills to change unhelpful cycles, which can be useful for anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dani will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted as therapy progresses to suit what is working or what needs to change.
Online sessions let people connect by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a busy day with less bandwidth, live chat or text can be used for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into everyday life and to keep continuity of care across locations.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- 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
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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