Daniela Schirmer, BACP

Daniela Schirmer is a BACP-accredited therapist who brings an integrative, trauma-informed approach to her private practice and online work with individuals and couples. With a calm, relational focus she pays attention not only to a person’s internal experience but also to the patterns that appear between people, including within the therapy relationship itself. Daniela combines person-centred principles with process-oriented and psychodynamic ideas, alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Gestalt, movement and art methods, and Nonviolent Communication, tailoring interventions to the needs of each client.

She aims to create a warm, respectful, and supportive space where feeling stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, or embroiled in conflict can be explored and meaningfully addressed. Daniela supports people through anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, addiction, relational difficulties, disconnection, and life transitions, and she works with couples facing communication breakdowns, conflict, emotional distancing, or uncertainty about their relationship’s future. Beginning therapy can bring up difficult material, and Daniela offers steadiness and compassion as she works collaboratively to find practical, grounded ways forward.

Daniela holds accreditation from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - and brings experience working in both face-to-face and online settings.

Attachment, Client-Centred, and CBT in Online Therapy

Daniela Schirmer draws on attachment-based work to explore how early and ongoing relationship patterns shape current connections. This approach helps people understand fears around closeness, abandonment, and trust, and can be useful for relationship difficulties and attachment wounds.

She also uses client-centred therapy, offering a respectful, non-directive space where the client’s own values and pace guide the work. This helps people rediscover personal resources, clarify goals, and feel genuinely heard in the therapeutic relationship. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) complements these approaches by identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and offering practical strategies to manage symptoms of anxiety, low mood, or stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process - Daniela works collaboratively with each person to select or combine methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Online formats - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it possible to access therapy with a registered professional from different locations and on a schedule that suits everyday life. These options provide flexibility, reduce travel time, and allow continuity of care when in-person sessions are not convenient.