About Danny
Danny Ashen is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with a BACP credential and four years of professional experience. He helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, questions about identity, and challenges around self-esteem. Danny focuses on practical support and straightforward conversation to help people take the next step in their lives.
He aims to build an open, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about what matters to them.
How Danny works
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with time spent listening, reflecting, and planning small steps forward. Danny works with people facing relationship concerns and life transitions as well as those needing help to cope with anxiety or low self-worth. Danny also offers support around gender identity and issues affecting LGBT people.
He has experience supporting people with autism and Asperger syndrome and understands how these experiences can affect stress, routine, and social interaction. Additional areas Danny addresses include body image, eating and food-related issues, self-harm, sexual assault and abuse, and the emotional aftermath of divorce or separation. He also helps people who feel isolated, stuck, or unsure about life purpose.
Sessions aim to be practical and paced to the person. Danny encourages clients to try manageable strategies between meetings and to review progress together. He works in plain language and keeps sessions focused on what will help in everyday life.
What Danny works with
The areas below are the ones Danny selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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
Approaches that guide online work and practical support
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used to help people manage symptoms and build coping skills. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying alternative responses in daily life; this helps reduce anxiety and improve mood by changing how a person reacts to stressful situations. Another common strand emphasises exploring identity, values and relationships so people can make clearer choices about gender, sexuality and close connections and feel more confident in who they are.Finding the right way of working is part of the process. The counsellor will discuss options with each person and agree a plan that fits their needs, goals and preferences. That planning is collaborative and can be revisited as therapy progresses to make sure the approach remains useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling flexible. Video calls suit longer conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in during a busy day, and messaging lets people reflect and reply in their own time. These formats can make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and daily life while keeping focus on practical progress.
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