- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Danielle
Danielle Montano is a counsellor with ten years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and combines humanistic values with practical approaches to help people navigate parenting stress and related life challenges. She aims to create a calm, straightforward space where parents can talk through what feels overwhelming and make decisions that fit their lives.
Danielle uses clear language and short-term strategies alongside deeper exploration of personal history.
Background and approach
She helps people understand how past experiences shape current choices and parenting styles. Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit each person, with attention to what is realistic for busy lives. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts with honours in Humanistic Counselling and a Master of Science in Psychology.
She also trained as a mindfulness practitioner and a certified life coach, and these threads inform her work with stress, anxiety, and coping with change. People come to her for a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addiction, eating and body image struggles, ADHD, and low self-esteem.
She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to match techniques to each person’s needs. Danielle accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. Her style is patient and grounded, focusing on small, achievable changes that add up over time.
She guides people toward more confidence in decisions and more ease in day-to-day parenting and life demands.
What Danielle works with
Everything Danielle lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Danielle helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Danielle lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online parenting support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify their values and commit to small actions that match those values. It is useful for managing stress, parenting overwhelm and anxiety by shifting attention from unhelpful thoughts to meaningful behaviour.Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape expectations and reactions in current ones. It can help someone understand patterns that affect closeness, communication and responses to parenting stress.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions and offers simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with low mood, anxiety, and practical problem-solving around daily routines.
The therapist treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will discuss options and try techniques that match a person’s goals and preferences, adjusting the focus as things change. This collaborative process helps identify what feels most useful for parenting and life demands.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can fit therapy into busy days. Video works well for face-to-face connection, phone can be a quicker check-in, and text or chat suits short updates or when typing helps express feelings. These options make it easier to keep continuity and to use therapy alongside work, childcare and other commitments.
Questions people ask about Danielle
What issues does Danielle commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addictions, eating and body image problems, ADHD and low self-esteem.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style blends humanistic listening with practical tools. Sessions are collaborative, down-to-earth and focused on realistic steps.
What is her professional background?
She has ten years of experience, a BA (Hons) in Humanistic Counselling, an MSc in Psychology, and training as a mindfulness practitioner and certified life coach.
Where is she based and how is she registered?
She practises in the United Kingdom and is listed with BACP and NCPS as supplied in her credentials.
Can sessions be held in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How are costs handled for therapy?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What should I do to begin sessions?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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