About Danny
Danny Byrne is a BACP counsellor who helps people lighten the load of anxiety, depression, trauma and addictive behaviours. He speaks plainly and avoids jargon so conversations feel direct and useful. People come to him when life feels overwhelming and they need practical ways to cope.
Danny uses clear, structured techniques alongside a warm, person-centred style. Sessions focus on simple tools to manage distress and on exploring what has led to repetitive patterns.
How Danny works
He emphasises small changes that build confidence and create room to breathe. He has eight years of practice in the United Kingdom. During that time he has worked with a wide range of concerns, including stress, grief, relationship and intimacy problems, eating and sleeping difficulties, career worries, and compassion fatigue.
He also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar and complex histories such as adoption, abandonment and attachment issues. Danny combines cognitive behavioural techniques for practical problem solving with attachment-based thinking to understand relational patterns. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are used when helpful to increase awareness and strengthen commitment to change.
The aim is to find approaches that fit each person rather than applying a single method. Sessions are available online by video or phone, and by live chat or messaging for shorter check-ins. He accepts international clients and works with people to arrange times that suit their lives.
To begin, a simple matching questionnaire helps pair a person with him and schedule the first appointment.
Danny lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current ways of relating. It helps people understand why they feel unsafe or distant in relationships and supports building more stable patterns. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and reflecting what a person says, which helps people feel heard and begin to make sense of their own choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers structured techniques to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, which is useful for anxiety, low mood and repetitive habits.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels helpful. Together they will try methods and adjust them over time so the work matches the client's needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are most like face-to-face sessions and are good for in-depth work and visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use a camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, tracking progress or fitting short sessions into a busy day. These options make it easier to arrange appointments across time zones and busy schedules while keeping the focus on useful therapeutic work with registered or accredited professionals.
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A practical next step
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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