About Solenne
Solenne Donnelly uses an integrative, client-centred approach to help people untangle patterns that leave them feeling overwhelmed or stuck. She is a PACFA counsellor with five years' experience and works in English and French. Her style is warm and collaborative, aiming to help people feel heard and build practical skills they can use day to day.
Solenne supports people facing anxiety, depression, stress and grief. She helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, identity questions, and challenges around boundaries and direction in life.
How Solenne works
She also works with eating and sleeping difficulties, compassion fatigue, career uncertainty and the strain of life transitions. Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based work, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy alongside client-centred principles. Sessions often combine talking about problems with simple exercises to shift thinking and regulation.
Solenne pays attention to how thoughts, emotions and body responses connect in everyday moments. Solenne has particular experience supporting people with trauma and abuse, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD and complex relational patterns such as abandonment and attachment issues. She also offers help for codependency, communication problems, divorce and blended family challenges, and recovery from domestic violence.
Sessions are offered online in Australia by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button and completes a short matching questionnaire before scheduling sessions.
Solenne 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Solenne works with
The areas below are the ones Solenne 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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | PACFA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, French |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that align with their values. Online sessions can teach simple mindfulness skills and practical exercises to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful action. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current connection. This work helps people understand trust, closeness and boundaries and is useful for relationship and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Solenne will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person's goals and preferences. Together they will try techniques and adjust the focus as needs change over time so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different circumstances. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text sessions suit shorter check-ins or moments when writing feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible around work, family commitments and location.
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