LOCATION: Goldstone Villas, Hove BN3, & online
AVAILABILITY: Tues 1pm - 8pm, Wed 10am - 9pm, Fri 10am - 6pm,
Online: Thursday 12pm - 6pm
PRICE: £60 individual £80 couples (initial free 15-min phone call)

SPECIALISMS:
Couples
Childlessness
Trauma
Anger
Belonging & Loneliness
Attachment & Early Relationships
Grief
Shame
Relationships
Adult Diagnosis of ADHD

Training

Danielle holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy and is a registered member of the BACP. Danielle work in private practice in Hove supporting individuals and couples, with a particular focus on grief, childlessness, infertility and trauma. They also work with Relationship Sussex (formerly Relate) as a Relationship Therapist, and with a trauma-informed charity in Sussex providing counselling to adult survivors of sexual abuse.

Since qualifying, Danielle has pursued further training in areas that inform their work including advanced trauma treatment, relational therapy with couples and individuals, fertility and childlessness counselling through the British Infertility Counselling Association, childless affirmative therapy, attachment wounds, working with shame and complex grief, internal family systems, and neurodiversity.

Previously, she volunteered with the Samaritans and Release, a charity supporting women through postnatal depression, infertility, trauma, and menopause - experiences that continue to shape her practice today.

Approach

Danielle works integratively, drawing primarily from humanistic, relational and trauma-informed approaches. The therapeutic relationship is at the heart of her work —believing that healing happens through connection, authenticity, empathy and creating a space where you can bring your whole self without judgment.
Danielle focuses on what's happening in both body and mind, recognising that emotions can show up physically first. When trauma or difficult experiences feel stuck inside, they can trigger intense responses - protective patterns that once kept you safe but may now hold you back. Her work helps clients understand these responses, allow difficult feelings and let go of patterns that no longer serve them.

Danielle works collaboratively, asking questions to deepen understanding rather than telling you what to do. With individuals, she uses existential, psychodynamic and narrative approaches to help make meaning. With couples, she views relationships as systems where understanding patterns matters more than assigning blame.

Couples

Danielle brings experience supporting couples through the complex and often painful moments that relationships can face. She has worked with partners navigating the strain of childlessness and IVF, the aftermath of affairs and broken trust, and communication patterns that leave both people feeling unheard or disconnected. She understands how recurring arguments, desire differences, jealousy, and trust issues can erode closeness, and she offers a steady, compassionate space to explore what sits underneath these cycles.

Her approach helps couples make sense of the dynamics that keep them stuck, especially during major life transitions such as illness, bereavement, job loss, or other shifts that can impact intimacy and emotional connection. Danielle works collaboratively, supporting clients to rebuild their relationship, discover new ways of relating, or separate with clarity and care when that feels right.

She also has experience with relationship structures — including monogamy, non-monogamy, and multi-partner relationships — and brings openness, curiosity, and respect to every partnership. Clients choose Danielle because she brings warmth, depth, and a non-judgmental perspective that supports meaningful change, whatever stage of relationship you are in.

Childlessness

Danielle works with people navigating the profound and often isolating experience of childlessness. Whether through miscarriage, unsuccessful IVF, infertility within a relationship, not meeting a partner in time, financial barriers, or life simply unfolding in unexpected ways. She understands that when you’ve always imagined children in your future, living without them can bring complex layers of grief that others may not recognise. Feelings of anger, shame, guilt, loneliness, and a deep sense of unfairness are common, as is disconnection from your body or frustration with those who don’t grasp the depth of what you’re carrying.

Drawing on her experience in grief work, recognising that this is not only about sadness; it is often about processing trauma, making sense of ambiguous loss that has no clear ending, and finding words for something rarely acknowledged in society. Her approach offers warmth, groundedness, and space to honour all parts of your story. Clients choose to work with her because she helps them sit with the complexity, reclaim compassion for themselves, and gently begin to imagine a future that, although different from what they hoped for, can still hold meaning, connection, and hope.

Trauma

Danielle works with people who have lived through difficult or overwhelming experiences - sexual abuse, domestic violence, neglect, accidents, serious illness, bullying, job loss, divorce, relationship breakdowns, and painful events from childhood. She understands how these experiences can leave lasting imprints, even long after life has moved on. Clients may notice panic attacks that seem to appear from nowhere, intense emotional reactions that feel out of proportion, difficulties in relationships, or a sense of being disconnected from their bodies. Often it can feel as if part of them is still caught in what happened, despite their best efforts to move forward.

Using her extensive experience in trauma-informed therapy, Danielle helps clients make sense of these responses as the mind and body’s attempts to keep them safe. Her work offers a steady, compassionate space to process what occurred and gently reconnect the parts of themselves that feel frozen or overwhelmed. Danielle brings warmth, clarity, and attunement, supporting them to place past experiences where they belong so they no longer feel so present or defining. This creates room to move through life with greater ease, confidence, and emotional freedom.

Other information

Alongside therapy, Danielle facilitates psychoeducation groups on trauma and its impact on the brain and body, helping people recognise that overwhelming responses are often deeply human survival patterns shaped by past experience