About Bridget
Bridget Donkin offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or relationship strain. She writes simply and listens closely so clients can make sense of difficult moments. Bridget aims to help people find clearer steps forward and feel steadier in day-to-day life.
With ten years' experience, she draws on approaches that keep the client at the centre. Sessions focus on understanding emotions, spotting unhelpful patterns and trying small, achievable changes.
How Bridget works
Bridget uses straightforward exercises, reflective conversation and mindfulness to help people notice what matters most. Her background includes work across a wide range of common difficulties such as depression, trauma and abuse, addictions and bipolar. She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, career strain, chronic illness and body image concerns.
Bridget has particular interest in attachment and abandonment issues alongside communication problems and commitment worries. Bridget is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That membership reflects her ongoing professional practice and standards.
She works in the United Kingdom and provides sessions in English, including to clients who live outside the UK. Sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone appointments, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to available times.
Fees vary by location and are charged through a cancellable subscription.
Bridget lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Bridget works with
The areas below are the ones Bridget selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Bridget commonly blends client-centred work with emotionally focused and mindfulness-based ideas. Client-centred therapy means the person sets the pace and the counsellor follows, helping people feel heard and understood while they identify what they want to change. Emotionally focused work looks at how feelings shape close relationships and helps people name and respond to emotions more clearly. Mindfulness therapy introduces simple practices to notice thoughts and sensations, which can reduce reactivity and improve day-to-day coping.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Bridget will work collaboratively to test what fits best, adjusting methods to match a person's goals, needs and preferences. She encourages open discussion about what helps and what does not so the plan can be refined together.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls support a more conversational session with visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caring duties or other commitments while keeping continuity of support.
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