About Donna
Donna Lemaitre is a counsellor with eight years of experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She works with people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression and relationship or intimacy concerns. Donna aims to make starting therapy as straightforward and gentle as possible for someone who is nervous about reaching out.
Donna creates a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk at their own pace.
How Donna works
Her work places the person’s experience at the centre, helping them notice patterns, make sense of feelings, and build confidence over time. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and progress is paced to each person’s needs. She combines person-centred listening with practical tools from therapies such as cognitive behavioural approaches and acceptance and commitment work.
Donna also uses insights from attachment-based and emotionally-focused methods when these fit a person’s situation. This mix is used to tailor sessions towards clearer thinking, steadier mood, and healthier ways of relating. Donna has supported people through trauma, bereavement, parenting stress, addiction concerns, and changes at work or in relationships.
Her background includes volunteering with mental health services and providing bereavement support at a hospice, giving her wide exposure to life transitions and loss. She understands what it is like to be on the receiving end of therapy and uses that perspective to guide a compassionate approach.
If someone wants to explore next steps, Donna encourages a short conversation to see whether working together feels right.
Donna lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Donna works with
The areas below are the ones Donna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches used online and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify what matters to them and to take small steps towards those values while learning new ways to live with difficult thoughts. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships that formed early on and how they affect current connections; it helps people who struggle with closeness, commitment or recurring relationship difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Donna uses a collaborative process to explore which methods suit a person’s goals and preferences. She listens to what feels helpful and adjusts the mix of listening, practical exercises and emotion-focused work as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distance, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and let people choose what feels most manageable for them.
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