Welcome,
let’s begin.

I’m Daniel, a UKCP-accredited psychotherapist based in London, offering therapy for adults both online and in person.

My approach is creative, intuitive, and grounded in a thoughtful, evolving understanding of human complexity. People come to work with me around anxiety, low mood, trauma, relationship difficulties, questions of identity, and times of transition, with much of my work focused on developmental trauma, LGBTQ+ experience, and neurodivergence.

Rather than working to a fixed formula, therapy is shaped around your particular history, needs, and inner world.

More than a space to talk, I offer a steady, non-judgemental way of working where we can explore the emotional patterns and ways of coping that have developed in response to real experiences. My approach is collaborative and carefully paced, drawing on psychodynamic, humanistic, transpersonal, and neuroscience-informed perspectives to support meaningful and lasting change.

Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or drawn toward a deeper understanding of yourself, therapy can offer a place to slow down, listen, and reconnect with what matters most to you. If it feels right, I’d be glad to explore whether working together could be supportive.

Why Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy offers a space to slow down and make sense of what’s been shaping your experience. It helps you understand patterns that may no longer support you, and approach them with curiosity rather than judgement.

Many difficulties such as anxiety, low mood, or feeling stuck reflect ways of coping that once made sense. Therapy creates the conditions to explore these patterns with care, allowing new ways of responding to emerge over time.

Rather than trying to fix you, psychotherapy supports greater awareness, choice, and a deeper connection to yourself.

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How Psychotherapy can make a difference:

Anxiety and Low Mood

Anxiety and low mood are often meaningful responses to life experiences, not signs of personal failure. Therapy offers a space to explore what these experiences are organised around, with care and at a pace that feels manageable.

Relationships

Struggles in relationships can leave you feeling stuck, misunderstood, or disconnected. Therapy provides a place to reflect on these patterns and to move toward more supportive and fulfilling ways of relating.

Trauma

Trauma can shape how we respond to the world long after the original experience has passed. These responses are understandable and often protective. Therapy offers a steady space to approach this with care, supporting greater ease, integration, and connection over time.

Neurodivergence

Living in a world not designed for how your mind works can be exhausting. Therapy offers a space to explore your experience with care, understand what supports you, and relate to yourself with greater clarity, self-trust, and compassion.

Creativity and expression

Creativity can ebb and flow, especially during periods of self-doubt or change. Therapy provides a supportive space to explore this and to reconnect with inspiration and meaning in your creative work.

Identity and life transitions

Periods of change can bring questions about identity, belonging, and how you want to live. Whether you’re exploring parts of yourself that have long been hidden or responding to shifts in relationships, work, or direction, therapy offers a supportive space to slow down, reflect, and move forward with greater clarity and self-trust.

Exploring
the Unconscious

Dreams, images, and inner experiences can offer a way of listening to parts of yourself that don’t speak in words. Therapy provides a space to explore these with curiosity and care, supporting a deeper sense of meaning and connection over time.

Stress and
Emotional Overwhelm

When life feels too much, stress and overwhelm are often signs that something needs attention. Therapy offers a space to slow down, understand what’s contributing to this, and find ways of relating to pressure that feel more sustainable.

Working With Patterns

Patterns that feel self-defeating or repetitive often developed for understandable reasons. Therapy offers a space to explore these with care, making sense of what they’re organised around and supporting change that feels more integrated and sustainable.

Your Journey…

Therapy isn’t a one-size-fits-all process. It’s a deeply personal and relational one, shaped by your history, your inner world, and the meanings you’ve had to make along the way.

At the heart of the work is a genuine, collaborative therapeutic relationship, built on trust, emotional contact, and careful pacing. My role is to offer an attuned and compassionate space where we can explore the patterns, emotions, and ways of relating that have developed in response to real experiences.

Many of the difficulties people bring to therapy reflect strategies that once helped them cope, stay safe, and preserve connection with others. Anxiety, low mood, relational struggles, a sense of disconnection, or feeling stuck are not random or meaningless. They are shaped by emotional learnings, often formed in relationship, that continue to organise experience beneath our awareness.

Rather than trying to fix or override these patterns, we slow things down and listen to what they’re organised around. From within the safety of the therapeutic relationship, new experiences can gradually emerge that allow what’s no longer needed to soften and shift, making space for a more integrated and alive way of being.

Contact

Daniel Piggott-Stewart (he/him), Pg. Dip in Counselling & Psychotherapy from CCPE (accredited by UKCP, registered member MBACP)

I’m a fully qualified, integrative transpersonal psychotherapist, who works with adults online and also in-person in London, UK. I hold a current and clear DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service), and abide by UKCP and BACP ethical frameworks.

Psychotherapy with me is creative, compassionate, and intuitive, shaped by the understanding that meaningful change often emerges through embodied experience rather than insight alone. I work at depth, attending sensitively to emotional, relational, and somatic processes as they unfold in session.

My approach is informed by a range of psychological traditions, including:

Psychodynamic: exploring how early experiences and unconscious patterns continue to shape emotional life and relationships;

Humanistic: honouring each person’s inherent dignity, resilience, and capacity for growth;

Existential: engaging with questions of meaning, freedom, responsibility, and mortality;

Liberation-oriented: recognising the impact of systemic oppression and supporting clients to reclaim agency and voice;

Transpersonal: creating space to explore spiritual, symbolic, and non-ordinary experiences with care and discernment;

Neuroscience-informed: drawing on contemporary research into emotional memory and memory reconsolidation, which suggests that some long-standing emotional patterns can shift when implicit emotional learnings are accessed and gently updated through lived, experiential work.

My training included several years of voluntary clinical work in community and statutory settings, supporting clients with complex trauma and long-standing mental health difficulties. This experience continues to shape how I work, particularly in terms of care, pacing, and attention to context.

Before training as a psychotherapist, I worked in retail, journalism, and fintech. These experiences shaped my understanding of how personal distress is often inseparable from wider social, economic, and cultural forces, and deepened my commitment to meeting suffering with care and curiosity while staying aware of the broader conditions that shape individual lives.

Areas of Expertise

I have extensive experience working with clients who face challenges related to:

Trauma: working with the many ways trauma can shape experience, including developmental, relational, and transgenerational trauma. This work moves at a careful pace, attending to how protective patterns formed and how they continue to organise emotional life, with space for integration over time.

Neurodivergence: offering an affirming space for neurodivergent people to explore their experience in a world that often doesn’t accommodate difference. This includes making sense of overwhelm, identity, masking, exhaustion, and finding ways of relating to yourself that feel more sustainable and self-trusting.

Relationships: Difficulties in relationships often reflect earlier experiences of attachment, safety, and belonging. Therapy offers a place to explore these patterns, whether in monogamous, non-monogamous, or other relational forms, and to support more ease, clarity, and connection.

LGBTQ+ Identity (Sexuality & Gender): I work affirmatively with LGBTQ+ clients around questions of sexuality, gender, embodiment, and belonging. This may include experiences of shame, dysphoria or euphoria, coming out, intimacy, and navigating relationships in a wider social context.

Trauma Related to Sexual Abuse: I provide sensitive, trauma-informed support for those impacted by sexual abuse and violation. This work honours the complexity of each person’s experience and focuses on safety, pacing, and restoring choice, agency, and connection.

Systemic Oppression & Marginalization: I work with the emotional impact of living within systems shaped by racism, classism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of marginalisation. Therapy can offer space to explore how these forces are carried internally, while supporting dignity, agency, and resilience.

Workplace Challenges & Burnout: I support people navigating stress, burnout, marginalisation, and the pressures of work within a capitalist culture that prioritises productivity over well-being and meaning. Therapy can offer space to make sense of exhaustion, trauma, self-blame, and loss of meaning, and to explore what a more sustainable and humane way of living might look like for you.

Climate Anxiety, Grief, Genocide & Polycrisis: Many people are living with profound grief, anger, fear, or moral distress in response to climate breakdown, war, genocide, and ongoing global violence. These reactions are not pathological, instead they are often expressions of conscience, care, and an intact capacity to feel in a world that repeatedly exposes us to individual and collective suffering.

Therapy can offer space to stay with what is being felt without minimising, bypassing, or turning it into something you have to carry alone. This work supports the integration of grief and moral pain, helping you live with awareness and integrity while remaining connected to yourself, others, and the world you belong to.

Misogyny & Gendered Harm: I offer space to explore how misogyny and gendered expectations shape inner life and relationships. This may include experiences of harm, shame, self-blame, violence, or constraint, as well as the quieter internalised effects of living within misogynistic systems. The work supports acknowledgement, grief, and the possibility of relating to yourself and others with greater dignity and agency.

Parental & Family Dynamics: Early caregiving relationships often leave a lasting imprint on how we experience safety, closeness, and self-worth. Therapy can support exploration of family and intergenerational dynamics, unmet needs, terms of attachment, and the ways these experiences continue to shape you, offering space to renegotiate these patterns on your own terms.

Transpersonal: Some experiences move beyond ordinary ideas of self, including moments of awe, unity, symbolism, or deep connection. Therapy can offer a grounded space to explore these experiences with curiosity and care, allowing them to be held alongside everyday life rather than separated from it.

Psycho-Spiritual Crisis or Emergence: At times, profound inner shifts can feel destabilising as well as meaningful. I work with people navigating spiritual crisis, existential upheaval, or sudden changes in perception or identity, supporting these experiences to be understood and integrated at a pace that feels stabilising and respectful of their depth.

Accredited
& Qualified

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP),
Registered Member 410544 MBACP.

UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP),
Full Clinical Psychotherapist Member 2011174793.

Post Graduate Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling & Psychotherapy, Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE), 2018-2024.

Certificate in Foundations of Counselling & Psychotherapy,
Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE), 2017.

Clinical Experience

I have a range of clinical experience working with diverse client groups, addressing complex psychological, emotional, and relational challenges in various therapeutic settings, including:

  • FreshStart Psychotherapy, London: 2021-2024.

  • NHS Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), Islington North: 2023.

  • The Caravan Counselling Drop-In Service, St James, London: 2018-2022.

  • Opening Doors (LGBT+ organisation): 2018-2022.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

I am committed to ongoing professional development in service to my clients, and have pursued extensive training in integrative and transpersonal psychotherapy to deepen my expertise.

  • Certificate in Foundations of Counselling & Psychotherapy (CCPE) 2017.

  • Post Graduate Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling & Psychotherapy (CCPE) 2018-2024.

  • Compassionate Inquiry Master Class (Gabor Maté, PESI)

  • Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma (NICABM)

  • Cultural Competence (Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre)

  • Movement for Trauma (Jane Clapp & Laura Beth Wenger, Jungian Somatics)

  • Alchemy of Anger (Jane Clapp, Jungian Somatics)

  • Understanding Chemsex (Campbell, Onlinevents CPD)

  • The Challenge of Racism in Therapeutic Practice (McKenzie-Mavinga, BATAAN)

  • Working with Gender Non-Conforming & Transgender Clients (Bridgman, PESI)

  • Working with Suicide: Essential Intervention & Prevention Strategies (PESI)

  • An Introduction to Energy Psychotherapy (Mollen, CONFER)

  • Energy Psychotherapy and the Transpersonal: Transforming Beyond Ego (CCPE)

  • The Archetypal Death Parent as Toxic Shame (Daniella Sieff)

  • Integrating IFS into the Transpersonal Integrative Approach (Ann Oldknow)

  • Introduction + Intermediate Coherence Therapy Trainings (Kina Wolfenstein)

  • Healing Shame from Attachment Trauma (Kina Wolfenstein)

  • Beginner Practitioner of Coherence Therapy (Level 1: Introductory Training, Coherence Psychology Institute)

My ongoing professional learning includes advanced study and training in:

  • Coherence Therapy and Memory Reconsolidation

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Trauma and Dissociation

  • EMDR (with formal training commencing February 2026)

  • My standard fee is £90 per 50-minute session, including the initial consultation.

    Sessions take place weekly at a mutually agreed time.

    Concession spaces may be available for those facing financial difficulties. Please contact me by email for more details.

  • Yes, I offer a no-obligation, free 20-minute consultation via Zoom to answer your questions and to help us both get a a sense of what working together could be like. Please contact me by email for availability: hello@therapywithdaniel.co.uk

    After our introductory session, I’ll send you a written contract outlining our agreement. This includes key areas such as confidentiality, fees, cancellations, data protection, and what to expect from therapy. If you’d like to see a sample or have any questions in advance, feel free to get in touch.

  • Yes, I offer both in-person sessions in London and online therapy via Zoom, which allows for arrangements that suit us both.

  • If you need to cancel or reschedule a session, please provide at least 3 days’ notice by email. Cancellations made with less than 3 days’ notice or missed sessions will incur the full session fee.

  • Yes, everything shared during our sessions is confidential. The only exceptions are if there is a risk of harm to yourself or others, if required by law, or if I discuss your case with my clinical supervisor. Supervisors are bound by the strict confidentiality agreements, and these discussions are solely for the purpose of ensuring you receive the best possible care. Confidentiality will be discussed in detail during our first session.

    You’re invited to read my Privacy Policy for more details.

  • You can book a session by contacting me directly through email.

    hello@therapywithdaniel.co.uk

    Please see the ‘Contact’ section for my current availability.

  • In the first introductory session, we will explore your reasons for seeking therapy, your background, and what you hope to achieve. It’s an opportunity for us to get to know each other and decide if we’re a good fit for working together.

  • The number of sessions varies based on individual needs and goals. The majority of my client work is long-term and open-ended, however, clients are welcome to enquire about short-term work. We will regularly review your progress to determine the best course of action.

  • I hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapy and am accredited by the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

    I’ve also completed extensive further training in areas such as trauma, LGBTQ+ identity, and neurodivergence. A detailed list of my qualifications and continuing professional development is available in the ‘Education & CPD’ section of the About Me page.

  • Online sessions are conducted with the same level of confidentiality as in-person work. I use encrypted Zoom video, a headset, and a private space to ensure your comfort, privacy, and audio clarity.

  • As a member of both the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), I follow their guidance, which advises against using client testimonials in advertising. This is to maintain ethical standards, protect client confidentiality, and avoid creating an unbalanced or overly positive impression of a therapist's work.

    While I don’t share client testimonials, you’re welcome to ask for anonymised examples of therapeutic approaches or hear more about how others experience working with me in general terms.

  • To protect client confidentiality and ensure clarity, I don’t initiate contact with individuals to offer therapy services, and I don’t use social media for client communication or advertising.

    If you ever receive a message claiming to be from me through another channel and are unsure of its legitimacy, please feel free to get in touch via email to confirm: hello@therapywithdaniel.co.uk

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Recommended Reading

Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin
This classic text introduces Focusing, a body-oriented process of inner awareness and change. Gendlin’s method empowers readers to connect with their felt sense to unlock personal insight and healing.

Eastern Body, Western Mind by Anodea Judith
Blending Eastern chakra systems with Western psychological frameworks, Judith presents a holistic approach to understanding personal development and healing. This book is an invaluable resource for exploring the mind-body connection.

Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman
Schulman challenges the common tendency to conflate disagreement with harm. This thought-provoking book examines dynamics of power, accountability, and community responsibility, making it essential reading for those navigating complex relationships.

My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
This ground-breaking book explores racialised trauma and its impact on bodies, minds, and communities. Menakem provides practical somatic tools to address and heal trauma at an individual and collective level.

Everything is Workable by Diane Musho Hamilton
Drawing on her experience as a Zen teacher and mediator, Hamilton offers guidance for embracing conflict as a transformative opportunity. The book provides accessible tools for working with emotions, communication, and relationships.

Rest is Resistance: Free Yourself From Grind Culture and Reclaim Your Life by Tricia Hersey
An essential read from the Bishop and founder of The Nap Ministry, that beckons us reclaim our body as a “site of liberation”, recognising how rest is essential in the disruption of (and resistance against) capitalism and white supremacy.

Initial Consultation:
I offer a free, no-obligation 20-minute Zoom consultation to help us explore your needs and see if working together feels like a good fit.

Limited availability:
My practice is currently full. If you’d like to be added to my waiting list, please email me and I’ll let you know when a space becomes available.

Contact me by email at:
hello@therapywithdaniel.co.uk (or use the form opposite).
I aim to respond to all queries within 24 hours (Monday to Friday).

To protect confidentiality, I don’t use social media for client communication or promotion, and I won’t contact anyone unsolicited. If you’re ever unsure whether a message is genuinely from me, please email me directly at: hello@therapywithdaniel.co.uk.