About Donna
Donna Rowley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 15 years of practice supporting people through difficult times. She works with common struggles such as stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief and depression. Donna aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming.
She approaches each person as an individual and tailors sessions to their needs. Her style is collaborative and straightforward.
Background and approach
She listens closely, helps people make sense of their situation, and sets practical steps people can try between sessions. Conversations focus on what matters most to the person and on small changes that add up over time.
Donna has worked across a wide range of concerns including attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care matters, body image struggles, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and relationship difficulties such as communication and commitment issues. She also supports people dealing with dissociation, domestic violence, divorce or separation, addiction to drugs or alcohol, eating and food-related issues, and feelings of emptiness.
Sessions usually look like an honest conversation with gentle challenge when needed. Donna will work at a pace that suits the individual and help plan next steps when therapy goals are clearer. She uses well-established, evidence-based therapeutic techniques chosen to fit the person’s needs.
People meet Donna in online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. She communicates in English and practises under the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Approaches that guide online counselling
Donna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to the person. One common approach focuses on recognising and managing anxious thoughts and physical tension by teaching practical coping skills. This helps people reduce immediate worry and build routines that lower daily stress.Another approach concentrates on understanding past experiences that affect current feelings and relationships. It supports people who have experienced trauma, abandonment or attachment difficulties to make sense of emotional reactions and try safer ways of relating to themselves and others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Donna will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels helpful. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust them as therapy progresses so the plan stays relevant and achievable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls are useful for a face-to-face feel, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be helpful for brief check-ins or ongoing reflection. These options give flexibility for people to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep contact between sessions when that is helpful.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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