About Daniela
Daniela Schirmer helps people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, parenting pressures, stress and anxiety. She also supports those coping with addiction, eating or sleeping issues, anger, low self-esteem, career questions, bipolar and depression, and major life changes. Daniela holds BACP, which denotes registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Daniela practises in an open, relational way. She keeps things straightforward and listens for what matters most to each person.
How Daniela works
Sessions focus on understanding feelings, patterns in relationships, and practical steps to reduce distress. Her approach brings together attachment work, client-centred care and cognitive behavioural methods. That mix helps people explore past hurts, improve how they relate to others, and learn new ways to manage difficult thoughts and behaviours.
Therapy can include looking at how early bonds shape current reactions and trying small, manageable experiments between sessions. Daniela aims to make conversations feel respectful and down-to-earth. She pays attention to what happens between people in the room and how that reflects everyday relationships.
Some sessions use talking, while others may invite creative or experiential ways to express things that are hard to name. She has six years of practice experience and offers online and independent practice appointments in the United Kingdom. Sessions are available in English and Portuguese.
People usually start by sharing what led them to seek support and then agree on practical goals to work towards.
Daniela lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Daniela works with
The areas below are the ones Daniela selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional reactions. It helps people notice patterns in closeness and trust and try different ways of connecting in daily life. Client-centred therapy focuses on being heard and accepted. The therapist offers a non-judgemental space so people can find their own way through difficult feelings and decide what changes they want to make. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and replace them with more helpful habits. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and practical problems like sleep or worry. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Daniela will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and choose or combine methods together. This collaborative process means the plan can change as progress is made. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can suit a short check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send messages between sessions and work through things in writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and mobility limits. Registered or accredited professionals, including therapists with Daniela's approaches, use these options to match sessions to what suits each person best.Start online instead of waiting
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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