Danielle (Dani) O'Connor , NCPS

Danielle (Dani) O'Connor is a UK-based counsellor with three years of professional experience and the NCPS credential, a professional counselling qualification. She works with people facing a wide range of challenges including stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and issues affecting self-esteem, addiction, eating and sleeping, parenting, career concerns, and mood disorders such as bipolar and depression.

Danielle also supports clients navigating intimacy-related matters, LGBT concerns, family and blended family dynamics, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and the complex effects of adoption, abandonment, chronic illness, and caregiving. Her practice includes work with attachment issues and a range of personality and neurodiversity-related challenges. She draws on evidence-informed approaches to tailor support to each person’s circumstances.

Danielle approaches therapy from a strengths-based perspective, holding the view that clients are the experts of their own stories and that existing strengths can be mobilised to address life’s challenges. She aims to create a welcoming therapeutic space where clients can explore difficult feelings, build coping skills, and pursue a more fulfilling life with support and empowerment from a compassionate professional.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Support

Danielle integrates several evidence-informed approaches into online work, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and learn practical skills to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while taking meaningful action - it can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of relating that develop early in life and explores how those patterns influence current relationships and emotional responses - it is often helpful for relationship difficulties, trauma-related attachment concerns, and intimacy-related issues.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process, and Danielle collaborates with clients to determine which methods best fit their goals, preferences, and presenting needs. Therapists work together with clients to adapt techniques and priorities as therapy progresses.

The online format supports flexible access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing clients to engage from different locations and schedules. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of support while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities, and they allow licensed professionals to use the same approaches that are effective in person in a more accessible way.