About me - Danielle Frake

I’m an integrative therapist, mindfulness teacher, and movement practitioner.

My work explores how stress, pressure, over-responsibility, and long-standing coping patterns can shape the way we think, feel, relate, and move through the world — and how understanding yourself more deeply can help create meaningful and lasting change.

I have a particular interest in supporting women who appear to be coping well on the outside, but internally feel exhausted, emotionally stretched, disconnected from themselves, or stuck in cycles of overthinking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, guilt, and constant striving.

Many of the women I work with have spent years pushing through, holding everything together, and focusing on what everyone else needs. Over time, this can create a way of living that feels driven by pressure rather than choice.

Through therapy, I support clients to feel more connected to themselves, more able to recognise their needs, emotions, and patterns, and more able to respond to understand themselves with more compassion rather than slipping into automatic ways of coping.

I want therapy to feel like a space where you can stop performing, stop trying to get it “right”, and begin to understand yourself in a deeper and more compassionate way.

My therapeutic approach combines talking therapy, mindfulness, and body awareness to help clients better understand their thoughts, emotions, physical responses, patterns of behaviour, and the ways they’ve learned to cope. My style is warm, relational, and grounded in real life.

Before becoming a therapist, I worked as a solicitor and later in global HR leadership roles for fifteen years. Through my experiences in these high-pressure professional environments, I saw how easy it can be to lose connection with yourself when productivity, responsibility, and coping become the default way of living.

I know what it’s like to look capable on the outside while quietly running on stress underneath. Therapy and mindfulness helped me recognise how disconnected I’d become from myself beneath all the achievement, responsibility, and constant doing.

These practices supported me in developing a different relationship with myself and my work — one that felt less driven by pressure and more connected to who I actually was and how I wanted to live.

That experience continues to shape the way I work today.

I offer short-term and long-term therapy online and in person, alongside mindfulness-based work for individuals and groups.