Daniel Childs
Experienced, down-to-earth psychotherapist
About Daniel
Daniel Childs has worked in psychotherapy for 12 years and is based in the United Kingdom. He uses his experience to help people with a wide range of concerns. He aims to be welcoming, friendly and down to earth from the first meeting.
Daniel also holds NCPS as a listed credential. Over his career he has supported people dealing with stress and anxiety, depression, bipolar mood problems and grief. He has worked with issues around trauma and abuse, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Relationship and intimacy-related difficulties, LGBT concerns and family strain are also areas he addresses. Daniel draws on several well-established approaches in his practice. He uses client-centred methods to prioritise each person’s experience and to build a trusting space.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are employed to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try practical changes. He also brings psychodynamic ideas and trauma-focused work where past patterns or traumatic events are relevant. Sessions tend to be straightforward and conversational.
Daniel listens first, then suggests steps people can try between sessions. He also offers shorter check-ins and different formats to suit practical needs. If someone wants to explore work or career questions, parenting strain, body image, ADHD, or longer-standing attachment issues, he can tailor an approach to match those goals.
He accepts clients from outside the UK and works in English. Daniel encourages people to notice that seeking help is a sign of strength. He is approachable and aims to make the first contact as simple as possible.
What Daniel works with
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Sessions & fees
How Daniel’s approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s experience and aims to create an accepting, non-judgemental space. It helps people who want to feel heard and to explore what matters most to them before deciding on next steps.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Online CBT sessions often include practical exercises and homework to try between meetings, which can help with anxiety, depression and sleep problems.
Trauma-focused work addresses the impact of past distressing events and helps people build coping skills and stabilise symptoms. This approach can be useful when trauma or abuse is part of a person’s history.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through the options, invite the client's preferences and recommend a pathway that fits the person’s needs and goals. That decision is collaborative and can change over time.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or for lower bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for people who prefer written check-ins or want flexible ways to touch base between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- 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 esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
