About Donna
Donna Watts is a counsellor with 14 years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and recover from trauma and relationship difficulties. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk openly about what’s worrying them.
Her work begins by listening closely to what matters most to each person. She helps people identify small, practical steps to reduce anxiety and make daily life more manageable.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to the individual and grounded in what the person is ready to change. Donna draws on a mix of therapy styles to suit different concerns. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past connections affect current relationships.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try out new ways of coping. Psychodynamic thinking helps uncover patterns that repeat over time, while solution-focused ideas support quick, practical progress. Over more than a decade she has worked with many issues connected to self-esteem, communication problems, body image, and complex stressors such as chronic illness and caregiver strain.
She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care matters, attachment difficulties, and personality-related challenges. Sessions are offered in English and are available to clients internationally. People can meet by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
The initial step is to complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions according to the therapist’s schedule.
Therapy approaches and how they work online
Donna uses attachment-based ideas to explore how early relationships affect current feelings and patterns. This approach can help when trust, closeness or repeated relationship problems are a concern. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try out new behaviours; it is useful for anxiety, stress and repetitive worries.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your story and then suggest techniques that match your goals and preferences. Together you will review what helps and adjust the plan as you go, so therapy stays practical and relevant to your life.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suit brief check-ins or times when a written approach feels easier. These options give flexibility to choose what works for timing, comfort and daily routines, while still focusing on the same therapeutic aims.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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