Danielle (Dani) O'Connor, NCPS

Danielle (Dani) O'Connor is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and loss. Dani approaches clients with warmth and a straightforward style, helping them identify strengths and take small steps towards change.

She believes the person in the room knows their life best. Sessions focus on what matters to the client and on practical ways to manage difficult feelings. Dani offers a welcoming space to talk through painful memories, confusing emotions, or recurring patterns that feel stuck.

Her work draws on a mix of approaches that can be shaped to each person's needs. Techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy are used alongside attachment-based and client-centred ideas. This combination aims to make moments of change more manageable and less overwhelming.

Dani has supported people with a wide range of concerns, including grief, addiction, sleep problems, caregiver stress, and issues linked to ageing and geriatric concerns. She also helps people dealing with identity and relationship challenges, body image and eating issues, and the emotional strain of long-term illness.

Conversations with Dani are collaborative and paced to each person. She works to build steady tools for coping, clearer ways to understand relationships, and small behaviour changes that add up over time. To begin, the site matching process is used to arrange a suitable time to start talking.

How Dani's approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being overwhelmed by them and then commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and managing life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical strategies to break unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people understand and change repeating relationship habits.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Dani will work with each person to decide which ideas and exercises fit their goals and preferences. That collaboration means techniques can be tried, adjusted, or paused according to what helps most.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins between commitments, or letting someone choose a quieter time of day. Many people find it easier to practise skills in their everyday settings and to bring real-life situations into a session for discussion. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises and homework so online sessions remain practical and focused on what the client needs.