Daniela Schirmer, BACP

Daniela Schirmer is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with six years of clinical experience. She helps people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, stress, addiction and anger. She also supports those coping with changes such as separation, career shifts or illness.

Her work draws on a mix of approaches rather than a single method. Sessions focus on the patterns that keep problems repeating - for example attachment dynamics, communication breakdowns, or habitual reactions to stress. She pays attention to interactions between people as well as what happens inside an individual.

Daniela uses elements from client-centred and attachment-based work. She brings cognitive behavioural techniques when practical tools are useful. Emotion-focused ideas are also part of her way of working when feelings and relational bonds are central to the issue.

In practice she aims for clear conversations about what is getting in the way and what people want instead. Therapy can include talking, noticing how relationships operate, and experimenting with different ways of responding. Creative approaches such as movement or art may be included when they help expression.

She has experience with intimate relationship problems, parenting pressures, blended family issues, grief, eating and sleeping struggles, and the effects of chronic illness. Language options include English and Portuguese, and international clients are not currently accepted.

To begin, clients complete an online matching questionnaire and schedule a first session. Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

Approaches in online sessions and how they help