Daniela Schirmer
Warm, relational therapy for life and relationships
About Daniela
Daniela Schirmer helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected or in conflict. She is Daniela Schirmer, a BACP therapist working with relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, parenting stresses, anxiety, depression and related concerns. She uses a warm and respectful style in sessions.
Conversations are straightforward and aimed at making small, useful changes. Daniela pays attention to what happens between people as well as what happens inside someone’s head.
Background and approach
Her work blends approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on attachment ideas to look at close relationships and on cognitive techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts. Emotionally focused ideas are used when feelings and connection are central to the problem.
Sessions can include talking, reflecting on relationship patterns, and practical steps for coping with stress or mood swings. Daniela also offers coaching-style help when people want clearer goals for work or life changes. She adapts pace and focus to what feels most helpful for the person in front of her.
She has six years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation, which is shown as BACP. Daniela works with people in the United Kingdom and offers therapy in English and Portuguese. Sessions are available online by video call, phone, live chat or messaging.
What Daniela works with
How Daniela works
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Sessions & fees
How Daniela’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people understand patterns of closeness, fear of abandonment and trust. It is useful for problems around intimacy, commitment and communication. Client-centred therapy focuses on the individual's experience and offers a non-judgemental space where the person sets the pace and topics. This approach supports people who need to be heard and understood as they work through grief, low self-esteem or life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with practical experiments and new ways of acting. It is often used for anxiety, stress, low mood and some eating or sleeping difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Daniela will discuss options and try methods that suit the person's goals, needs and preferences. That way the therapy is adjusted as progress and new issues arise, rather than fixed from the start.
Online sessions in video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and reading of facial cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day and need less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging can be shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, care duties and travel, while retaining the same therapeutic focus as in-person work.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
