About Donna
Donna Mcallister is a counsellor who works with people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Therapeutic Counselling (HONS) and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She draws on three years of professional experience to guide practical steps for daily life.
Donna focuses on helping people talk through anxiety, low mood, burnout and major life changes. She also supports those facing relationship strains, grief, trauma and issues around self-esteem.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward conversation to help clients make sense of troubling patterns. Her approach is collaborative and gentle. Sessions aim to build trust and to explore thoughts and feelings without judgement.
She encourages small, realistic changes that fit each person’s life and goals. Donna draws on techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to develop coping skills. She also uses attachment-based and client-centred ideas to strengthen emotional understanding.
Where needed she offers practical strategies from dialectical behaviour therapy for managing intense emotions. Sessions are offered in English and can be booked for different formats. New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Donna aims to create a steady, compassionate space for people to work towards a more manageable life.
How Donna’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. It aims to clarify personal values and build small steps towards a life that matters, which can help with anxiety and low mood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, useful for managing stress and sleep problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Donna will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together they decide which methods to try. That collaborative process makes it easier to adapt techniques so they fit daily routines and real-life challenges.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction across distance, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be good for quicker check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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