About Donna
Donna Watts helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. She supports those coping with addictions and people working through relationship problems and past trauma. Donna aims to make it easier to take the first step towards change by offering steady, calm support.
She uses a mix of talking approaches to suit each person. That can mean looking at patterns from earlier relationships, focusing on practical steps to manage thoughts and behaviours, or spending time simply listening and helping you make sense of your feelings.
How Donna works
Sessions are intended to be down-to-earth and centred on what matters most to the client. Donna has 14 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. Her BACP credential is noted as part of her professional background.
That experience informs how she helps people tackle low self-esteem, abandonment issues, communication problems and difficulties linked to adoption, fostering or caring roles. She also works with people affected by chronic illness, cancer, body image distress and neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Other concerns she addresses include attachment difficulties, codependency, commitment worries and some personality-related challenges.
In sessions Donna aims to balance practical, solution-focused steps with time to notice deeper feelings. The work is collaborative so you and she can set goals that feel realistic. People who prefer a straightforward, compassionate approach often find this style helpful.
Donna lists 7 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at the ways early relationships shape how someone connects with others now. Online sessions can help uncover those patterns and build healthier ways of relating to close people. Client-Centred Therapy puts the client's perspective at the heart of the work, with the counsellor offering acceptance and understanding while the client leads where the conversation goes; this suits people who need time to find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical techniques to change feelings and behaviour, and it can be helpful for anxiety, stress and low mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Donna will collaborate with each person to find the best match for their aims and preferences. That might mean using a mix of approaches, reviewing progress and changing focus as goals evolve.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as fitting sessions around work or family life and avoiding travel. Video calls let you meet face to face, phone sessions can be quicker and use less bandwidth, and text or live chat works well for short check-ins or when people prefer writing. These options give flexibility while keeping the therapeutic relationship central.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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