About Donna
Donna Mcallister is a BACP counsellor who works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and life changes. She uses a warm, straightforward style and aims to make first steps feel manageable for someone worried about seeking help. Donna draws on therapies such as acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques and attachment-based approaches.
She helps people name what is troubling them and tries out practical ways to reduce distress. Sessions are conversational and focused on what matters most to the individual.
How Donna works
With three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom, Donna has supported people through burnout, grief, relationship strains and challenges around identity and intimacy. She also offers help for issues such as eating and sleeping difficulties, addiction concerns, and career stress. Her practice pays attention to how past relationships and attachment can shape feelings now.
People can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through strong emotions and confusing choices. Donna aims to build trust and to work at a pace that feels safe. She encourages small, achievable steps so progress can be noticed between sessions.
Working online, Donna provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. International clients who speak English may take part. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect people to the service and then sessions are scheduled according to availability.
Donna lists 17 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Self esteem
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
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being led by them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing practical changes in behaviour to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. It works well for stress, sleep problems and some eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps individuals understand and change ways of relating that cause pain.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods over time. People often mix techniques from different approaches to suit their needs, and Donna aims to decide this together with each person.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect that fit modern life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people reflect in writing and fit therapy into busy schedules. These options make it easier to attend from different locations and to choose the format that best supports progress.
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