About Solenne
Solenne Donnelly is a counsellor and psychotherapist with five years of clinical experience. She is registered with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) and offers care in English and French. She commonly supports people feeling anxious, stressed, low, or stuck in relationship and identity questions.
Solenne aims for a warm and collaborative therapy style. Sessions are a space to talk honestly and learn practical skills. She helps people notice links between thoughts, emotions and bodily reactions so they can respond differently to hard moments.
Background and approach
Her approach mixes several evidence-informed methods. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small steps towards them. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tools to shift unhelpful thinking patterns and build coping skills, and attachment-focused work to explore how past relationships shape current reactions.
Solenne has experience supporting issues such as trauma and abuse, eating and food-related difficulties, grief, parenting strains, anger, self-esteem problems and ADHD-related challenges. She also works with people facing career uncertainty, life transitions and compassion fatigue. Therapy is collaborative and paced to the person.
Solenne offers video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging sessions so people can choose what fits their life. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first appointment.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice painful thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It helps with anxiety, stress and feeling stuck by emphasising small, meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours. It gives practical tools for managing mood, sleep, and worry.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then jointly decide which methods to try. This collaborative process means methods can be adapted over time if one approach is not helping enough.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing non-verbal cues matters. Phone sessions can be simpler when internet bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options offer flexibility for different rhythms, schedules and practical needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, French
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