Danielle Montano, BACP, NCPS

Danielle Montano is a counsellor with ten years of experience who holds BACP and NCPS credentials. She trained in humanistic counselling and completed a Master of Science in Psychology. Danielle uses a person-focused, respectful style that aims to help people make clearer choices in their lives.

She begins by helping people understand how their personal history and beliefs shape everyday choices. Sessions are conversational and grounded in the client’s priorities. Danielle encourages practical reflection so people can try out different ways of coping between meetings.

Her approach draws on several well-known methods, including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-informed work, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques and emotionally focused ideas. Those approaches guide how she helps with stress, anxiety, depression and mood issues such as bipolar. She also supports people dealing with grief, compassion fatigue and big life changes.

Danielle works with concerns around relationships, intimacy and communication, and with issues such as body image, eating difficulties and addictions. She also pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes and to neurodiversity matters including autism and Asperger Syndrome. Her style aims to be steady and curious rather than directive.

People who want a thoughtful, humanistic counsellor may find her way of working suitable. To begin, clients complete an initial matching step and then arrange sessions according to the booking process.

How chosen approaches translate to online counselling

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose values-based actions rather than getting stuck in avoidance. It is useful for anxiety, stress and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people build more secure ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions, using attentive listening and reflection so people feel understood and can explore options.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will collaborate with each person to test what helps most. That means trying techniques, checking how they land, and adjusting methods to match goals and preferences rather than imposing a fixed model.

Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by saving commute time or allowing shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also gives options if someone prefers not to be on camera or needs a lower-bandwidth call. The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm the available online options before booking. Working remotely still allows for focused, practical therapy using the approaches described here, and many people find this helps them make steady progress.