(she/her)
Clinical Mental Health Therapist
Daniela is a Clinical Mental Health Therapist who works with young adults and adults who are quietly struggling, not always in crisis, but carrying more than they are used to naming. She sees mental health not as fixed, but as something that moves, seasons of light, and seasons of struggle, both simply part of being human. This understanding shapes how she works with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, grief, burnout, life transitions, trauma, attachment or relational injury, and difficulty regulating emotion, as well as couples who want to understand each other better.
As a Registered Counsellor with the Singapore Association for Counselling, she brings to this work a Master of Counselling from the Singapore University of Social Sciences and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Murdoch University. Her approach is traumainformed and integrative, often starting with what feels safe and steady before moving gently toward the deeper work underneath, using evidence-based modalities including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, Internal Family Systems-informed therapy, the Gottman Method, and Attachment-Focused EMDR (Parts 1 and 2), each used according to what a client needs. Where needed, she is also equipped with Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) to meet clients in acute distress with steadiness and compassion.
Beyond the training, though, is a simpler truth – something she has lived herself: change happens less through being fixed, and more through being met. In session, she walks alongside rather than ahead, her presence calm and unhurried, a steady kind of company. This steadiness itself can become part of the work, a quiet experience of what it feels like to be met, to breathe, and to reconnect with what feels most true underneath, even in the parts that feel guarded or uncertain, without being judged or rushed.
What she hopes for is not dramatic transformation. Not a sudden rescue. More a quiet rising, each in their own way. The easing of old patterns, the slow return of hope, a sense of coming home to a self that was there all along, beneath the weight of it.