About Lorraine
Lorraine McDonnell is a counsellor with four years of clinical experience supporting adults who feel overwhelmed by anxious thoughts and life changes. She holds membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Lorraine offers calm, practical sessions that focus on understanding what keeps worry going and on finding manageable steps forward.
Her style is warm and straightforward. She listens without judgement and helps people name the thoughts and routines that make days harder.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through recent situations, noticing patterns, and trying small experiments between meetings to test new ways of coping. Lorraine draws on client-centred work to make sure each person’s priorities shape the time together. She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and to build simple, realistic plans for change.
This mix suits people who want both understanding and practical tools. She has worked with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression, along with challenges such as addiction, sleep problems and career strain. Lorraine also supports those dealing with chronic illness, caregiving burden, isolation and end-of-life concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Lorraine encourages a collaborative pace so people can go at a speed that feels right. To begin, she asks clients to describe their current concerns and goals so each plan fits the person sitting in front of the screen.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as they are. It helps people feel heard and encourages self-directed change by following their priorities and pace. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems and often involves trying small behavioural experiments between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lorraine works collaboratively to decide what will help most based on someone’s goals and preferences. She may emphasise listening and exploration at first, then introduce straightforward CBT techniques if that suits the person’s needs.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face without travel, phone sessions remove the need to be on camera, and live chat or text messaging can fit quick check-ins or days when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep continuity when life is busy or unpredictable, while still using counselling methods to address worry, grief, stress and related concerns.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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