Bath & London · Online Worldwide (except USA)

A space to
finally feel
understood.

Whether you're navigating relationship pain, trauma, grief, or the quiet weight of not quite feeling like yourself — this is a place to make sense of it together.

Learn about how I work
BACP Registered Member 396619 MBACP Accred.
EMDR UK
BEFT - The British Emotionally Focused Therapy Centre
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Danielle Fortson — therapist and counsellor at Sirius Therapy
Danielle Fortson  ·  MBACP (Accred.)  ·  MSc (Dist.)

Areas of focus

How I can help you

Hover over each area to explore what we might work on together.
I combine a number of psychotherapy, trauma-informed and emotion-focused approaches to support you with:

Relationships

Do similar conflicts keep surfacing and you come away feeling disconnected from yourself and/or others?

Relationship Work

  • Conflict and communication
  • Codependency and avoidance
  • Intimacy and connection
  • Boundaries and patterns
  • Dating and attachment
  • Separation and break-ups

Emotional Dysregulation

Do your feelings feel bigger than you can hold, disproportionate to the situation, and you don't know where to start?

Emotional Processing

  • Depression and low mood
  • Generalised, health and/or social anxiety
  • Anger and reactivity
  • Guilt and shame
  • Stress, overwhelm & panic attacks
  • Dissociation and shutdown
  • Burnout

Trauma

Something happened, and a part of you is still living there.

Trauma Processing

  • Complex and developmental trauma
  • Abuse
  • Sexual assault and rape
  • Acute trauma
  • PTSD and C-PTSD
  • Medical trauma and trauma held in the body

Identity & Self-Worth

Who are you beneath your conditioning? Beneath the roles, the masks, and others' expectations?

Self-(Re)Discovery

  • Who am I and what do I need?
  • Self-worth, imposter syndrome and inner critic
  • Cultural and societal pressures
  • People pleasing and being "good"
  • Building self-compassion
  • Life direction and meaning
  • Navigating diagnoses

Grief & Loss

Grief doesn't follow a timeline, and it doesn't have to.

Mourning Process

  • Bereavement and mourning
  • Suicide bereavement
  • Pregnancy loss, fertility and the loss of a child
  • Ambiguous loss
  • Life transitions and endings
  • Loss of identity or purpose

Patterns & Habits

Do you struggle to separate, understand and integrate what you need with what you want?

Supporting Yourself

  • Eating difficulties and disorders
  • Sleep issues
  • Self-care, routine and responsibilities
  • Breaking unhelpful behaviours
  • Coping rather than living
  • Struggling to put wants and/or needs into action
Danielle Fortson

I felt for the first time that I actually understood myself. I wish I had found Danielle sooner.

— A.M., former client

Qualifications & memberships

BACP Accredited MSc Psychology (Dist.) EMDR Therapist Accredited EMDR Training Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy Training Relational Trauma Training

Clinical Experience

Clinical Lead, NHS Mental Health Service (London) Suicide Bereavement Charity Domestic Abuse Charity Women's Safe House Youth Justice Therapy Children's Charity Private Practice

About your therapist

Meet Danielle

I'm an integrative counsellor and psychologist based in Bath and London, offering sessions in-person, online, and as walk-and-talk therapy. I work with adults navigating a wide range of difficulties, from relationship patterns and trauma to grief, identity, and emotional dysregulation, as well as clients who want to grow and return to themselves (their true Self).

My approach involves first, helping you slow things down and tune into what's happening in the moment, so we can really understand your experience as it unfolds. Together, we then identify the patterns that might be keeping you stuck, especially in how you relate to yourself or others. From there, I support you to safely access and explore the deeper emotions, history and meanings underneath the surface reactions, helping them to become clearer and more manageable. In the session, we then work on trusting and expressing those emotions and needs in new, more helpful and healthy ways — such as finding your voice, setting boundaries, reaching for support and more. Finally, we integrate these new experiences so you can begin to respond differently in your life and relationships beyond therapy, creating lasting change.

I believe the therapeutic relationship itself is at the heart of change. My role is not to fix or direct, but to be a steady, warm, curious, attentive, boundaried but compassionate presence facilitating deeper exploration through thoughtful challenges as you make sense of your own experience and find your way forward. I engage in regular clinical supervision and continued professional development, including specialist training in EMDR, EFT (Emotion-Focused Therapy) and relational trauma.

Before training as a therapist, I spent eight years working as an educator both nationally, but largely internationally — including at Sorbonne University, Paris — experiences that deepened my understanding of people, culture, and how we make sense of ourselves and others.

Therapeutic approaches

Emotion-Focused Therapy EMDR Attachment Theory Psychodynamic Somatic Person-Centred Trauma-Informed Transactional Analysis Gestalt IFS Systemic 2nd & 3rd Wave CBT Narrative

The therapeutic journey

How it works

The overall journey of therapy with me. Stages 1–4 aren't always linear. That's completely normal and okay. What matters most is that you're met where you are at.

Stage 0
Free Consultation
Before we begin

30 minutes by phone. No obligation — just a conversation to see if we're a good fit.

"When you need me but do not want me, then I must stay."

— Nanny McPhee
Stage 1
Understanding What's Happening
Initial sessions

The first stage is about exploring what the issues and conflicts are, how they're blocking connection — within yourself, to others, to feeling alive — and beginning to own the cycle you're in, rather than being owned by it.

Understanding your patterns, gaining insight, and learning some practical tools are in themselves powerful steps towards change. Some clients find this is where they want to stop — and it's where many therapies stop too. But awareness alone isn't enough to create lasting change.

Stage 2
Changing How You Experience & Respond
Middle sessions

This is where we go deeper — excavating what's driving the conflicts, your memories, and your emotions, so you can engage with your experiences in new ways. This might mean accessing feelings that have been hard to reach, expressing them safely, and discovering ways of responding — to yourself and to others — that feel more authentic and effective so that you can finally move forwards.

Stage 3
Building Something More Secure & Lasting
Nearing the end

Here we integrate what you've learned and reflect on what has shifted since you started. As new emotional experiences take shape, we focus on helping them stick. You begin to respond differently in yourself, in your everyday life, and in your relationships — feeling more confident, connected, and able to meet challenges in a way that fits who you are.

This stage is one clients sometimes want to skip — but it matters. Old ways of relating can be patterns of decades; consolidating what's new takes time and intention. Moving to fortnightly or monthly sessions here (unless there are unresolved distressing memories needing weekly EMDR work) can be a good way to practise flying a little longer on your own.

Stage 4
Processing Difficult or Unresolved Memories ✦ When needed
EMDR & trauma-focused work

If specific past experiences still feel distressing or "stuck," we can gently work through them using approaches such as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). This helps the memory feel less overwhelming, so it no longer distresses you on recollection or disrupts your present-day life.

EMDR can be used earlier in therapy, not just here — but many of my clients have wanted to do the emotional and relational work first.

Stage 5
Closing Session — Ending Well
Looking ahead

When the time feels right to finish, we have a final session to reflect on the work you've done and the changes you've made. Together we'll look at how to maintain what you've gained, what's worked, how to apply your learnings to future challenges, and how to continue supporting yourself beyond therapy — so you leave feeling prepared, confident, and clear about what comes next.

"When you want me but no longer need me, then I must go."

— Nanny McPhee

And should you ever want or need to come back — it's more common than you might think. I know it often means something painful has come up, but I'm glad you feel this can be a place to return to, and it will be a privilege to welcome you back.

Investment in yourself

Simple, transparent pricing

All sessions are 60 minutes unless otherwise noted. Your first step is always a free 30-minute consultation.

Online & Walk-and-talk

£ 65

per 60-minute session

Full 60-minute session via video call

Walk-and-talk sessions available locally

Online sessions available worldwide, outside the USA

In-Person

£ 75

per 60-minute session

Face-to-face sessions

Online

60 minutes £80
90 minutes £115

Individual therapy using EMDR

Delivered via video call

90-minute sessions recommended for deeper processing

In-Person

60 minutes £90
90 minutes £130

Individual therapy using EMDR

Face-to-face sessions

90-minute sessions recommended for deeper processing

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is an individual therapy — not available as a couples session.

Online

60 minutes £90
75 minutes £105

Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)

Delivered via video call

75-minute sessions often recommended to allow fuller exploration

In-Person

60 minutes £100
75 minutes £120

Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)

Face-to-face sessions

75-minute sessions often recommended to allow fuller exploration

What clients say

Words that stay with me

Every person who sits with me matters. Here, in their own words, is what that can feel like.

Reach out

Ready for the
next step?

Whether you have a question, want to check availability, or simply aren't sure where to begin — please do get in touch.

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