About Daniela
Daniela Schirmer is a BACP counsellor who supports people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, parenting stresses, anxiety and depression. She also helps with addiction, sleep and eating concerns, anger, low self-esteem, career uncertainty and coping with big life changes. She provides a calm, respectful space for people to talk and be listened to.
Daniela draws on several approaches to shape sessions around each person's needs. She uses somatic ideas to bring attention to bodily experience alongside talking.
Background and approach
Attachment-based and client-centred work inform how she notices relationship patterns and builds trust in the room. Her practice mixes practical tools and reflective conversation. Cognitive behavioural techniques are offered where helpful to change unhelpful thinking and behaviours.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas guide work on closeness and emotional expression in relationships. Daniela has six years of clinical experience working in both independent practice and online settings across the United Kingdom. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP.
Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese and can be done by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. International clients are not currently accepted. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
How Daniela blends approaches in online therapy
Daniela commonly integrates somatic work with attachment-based and client-centred ideas to support people online. Somatic-informed work brings attention to bodily sensations and how stress shows up in the body; this can help with trauma, anxiety, chronic pain and stress-related issues. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people notice and change repeated interaction styles. Client-centred therapy focuses on being offered empathy, acceptance and a non-judgemental space so people can find their own answers.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Daniela will discuss options and adapt methods to match each person's goals, preferences and circumstances. This is a collaborative process where the person and counsellor decide what seems most useful over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, which makes therapy more flexible around work, family and travel. These formats let people access help from home, try different ways of communicating and keep continuity when life is busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- 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