Danny Byrne
Practical, down-to-earth counselling for adults
About Danny
Danny Byrne is a BACP counsellor with eight years of practice supporting adults through anxiety, depression, trauma and addictive patterns. He takes a plain-speaking, practical approach without jargon. Sessions aim to unpick what feels overwhelming and find straightforward ways to feel steadier.
His main methods include cognitive behavioural tools for structure and problem solving. He also uses client-centred ways of listening to help people feel heard. Attachment-based ideas guide work around close relationships and patterns that repeat.
Background and approach
Danny is comfortable talking about relationship strain, intimacy-related issues and challenges linked to identity such as LGBT concerns. He can also help with stress, grief, self-esteem and workplace strain like compassion fatigue or career uncertainty. Other focus areas include parenting strain, sleeping and eating difficulties, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and coping with life changes such as adoption or abandonment issues.
He is familiar with topics around body image, kink and alternative sex culture, and communication or commitment difficulties. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different schedules. Danny accepts international clients and uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
The emphasis is on practical steps, discovering existing strengths, and working collaboratively toward clearer routines and calmer days.
What Danny works with
How Danny works
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Sessions & fees
How attachment, CBT and client-centred work translate online
This therapist uses a mix of cognitive behavioural techniques, attachment-based thinking and client-centred listening. CBT offers practical steps and exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and habits, which can be practised between sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns influence current feelings and reactions, helping people notice repeating dynamics. Client-centred therapy focuses on being heard, offering empathy and reflecting experience so people can make their own choices.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Danny will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods so they fit the person and the issue. That collaborative process helps decide whether to prioritise structured skills, exploratory relational work, or a combination.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual contact helps. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, travel or family commitments while using the approaches above in a convenient way.
| 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
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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 counselling
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
