Danielle (Dani) O'Connor
Calm, practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Danielle
Danielle (Dani) O'Connor is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and loss. Dani aims to create a calm, approachable setting so people feel able to talk about what matters to them.
Her style centres on listening first and then working together to find practical steps forward. She believes each person knows their story best and brings out their strengths to meet change.
Background and approach
Sessions are supportive and down to earth, with an emphasis on small, achievable goals. Dani draws on a mix of well-known approaches to tailor work to each person. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas among other methods.
The aim is to make therapy useful for everyday life, not just a place to talk. People come to Dani for a wide range of concerns including grief, self-esteem, addictions, sleeping and eating issues, parenting strain, career stress, bipolar and depression symptoms, and ADHD-related challenges. She also offers support around intimacy-related issues, body image and the needs of LGBT people.
Sessions may look different depending on the issue - sometimes focusing on skills and coping, sometimes on processing hard feelings, and sometimes on changing patterns in relationships. Dani supports international clients and works in English. She holds NCPS as a credential and brings a non-judgemental approach to each meeting.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting held hostage by them. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a life they care about, which can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with change.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going. It teaches clear skills and exercises to change unhelpful habits, which often helps with anxiety, depression and sleep or eating issues.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand emotional needs and change the ways they relate to others, which can support intimacy-related issues and relationship concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then agree on methods together. This collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer flexibility and make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. Using these options can help keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving and travel commitments.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
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
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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 assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
