About Danielle
Danielle (Dani) McTernan is a counsellor and psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and has around four years of professional experience. Dani sees clients internationally and offers sessions online and by phone, as well as through live chat and text-based messaging.
Dani approaches therapy with warmth and curiosity. She says people bring their whole story into the room, and she treats that story with respect. Dani identifies as neuro-divergent and is LGBTQ+ affirming, and she aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space for all clients.
How Danielle works
Her style is flexible and patient. Sessions move at a pace the client finds comfortable, and practical needs are discussed together. Dani encourages clients to notice strengths they already have, and to use those strengths when facing change or loss.
Dani works from an integrative and existential perspective, helping people consider meaning, choice and values in their lives. She also uses approaches that focus on thoughts, emotions and behaviour to help with problems like anxiety, depression and trouble sleeping. Typical concerns she supports include trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, stress, parenting strains and career difficulties.
She also offers help for issues such as ADHD, compassion fatigue, intimacy-related worries and long-term health challenges. People who choose Dani often want a collaborative, respectful relationship. She helps them clarify goals, make grounded choices and build on what already works in their life.
The practice welcomes international clients and offers a mix of session formats to suit different needs.
Danielle lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Danielle works with
The areas below are the ones Danielle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Working with values, thoughts and emotions online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps clients focus on what matters to them and to take small steps towards those values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and life changes by clarifying priorities and practical next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers tools to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with depression, stress and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions and attachment needs to help people understand and name their feelings and build more helpful emotional responses.Finding the right approach is part of the work Dani does with each person. She will talk through options and try methods together to see what fits best with the client's goals and preferences. That collaborative process shapes the focus of sessions over time.
Online therapy lets sessions happen where they suit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options can make regular work on goals easier to fit around family, work or study commitments while keeping the therapeutic focus intact.
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