About Donna
Donna Murison, MBACP (Accred) helps people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, low self-esteem and many other concerns. She offers calm, practical support for everyday problems and longer-term life changes. Donna works online with people both in the UK and internationally in English.
Donna uses straightforward talking therapy to help people understand thoughts, feelings and behaviours. She draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused ideas to build workable strategies.
How Donna works
Sessions are shaped around what each person needs and how they prefer to work. Her approach values warmth, patience and a non-judgemental stance. Donna aims to help people make small, manageable changes and build coping skills.
She also supports people exploring identity, intimacy issues, addiction, parenting stress, sleep and career concerns. Donna has ten years of clinical experience and is an Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, MBACP (Accred). She keeps her practice under regular supervision and continues professional development.
This helps her maintain clear, ethical work with clients. In initial sessions she will listen to your story, agree practical goals and choose techniques that fit your life. Some people prefer short-term focused work, while others use therapy for longer change.
Donna adapts sessions to match each person's circumstances and aims. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging. Session options allow for flexible contact and ongoing support as people work through specific problems or broader life transitions.
Donna lists 14 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)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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
How Donna’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify what matters to them and take small steps that match those values. It focuses on moving towards a meaningful life even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and many everyday difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early patterns shape close relationships and helps people build healthier ways of relating to others and themselves.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Donna will listen to your story and discuss which methods might help most. Together you will agree goals and try techniques that fit your needs, adjusting the plan as you go so the work stays relevant and helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you use face-to-face style conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions suit quick check-ins or times when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, written exchanges that can fit into busy days or provide ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to work on stress, ADHD strategies, relationships or grief without rearranging large parts of life.
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