About Bear
Bear Donna is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom. He holds NCPS and has three years of professional experience supporting people through a wide range of concerns. He aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can speak openly about what matters to them.
He focuses on areas such as LGBT matters, trauma and abuse, eating difficulties, depression, anxiety and stress. He also helps people with ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief and sleep problems.
How Bear works
Other areas of attention include self-esteem, career challenges, parenting strain and coping with major life changes. His background includes study in integrative methods and transactional analysis, which means he draws on several therapeutic ideas and pays particular attention to how patterns of thinking and relating form over time.
He uses practical tools from these approaches to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused when preferred, with options for gentler reflective work if that suits the person. He aims to work at a pace each person can manage, offering clear steps and simple exercises to try between meetings.
Bear describes therapy as a collaborative process. He supports clients to set realistic goals, practise new skills and build on small changes that add up to a better day-to-day life.
What Bear works with
The areas below are the ones Bear selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- 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
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| 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
How therapeutic approaches work online
Bear draws on integrative therapy and transactional analysis in online work. Integrative therapy combines practical techniques from several approaches to meet a person's needs, often focusing on problem-solving, coping strategies and homework tasks to try between sessions. Transactional analysis looks at recurring patterns in how people think and relate, helping clients spot unhelpful scripts and experiment with different ways of communicating.Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist discusses goals and preferences in early meetings and suggests a plan that can change as progress is made. That collaborative stance helps ensure the work fits the client's needs and pace.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different situations. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions suit lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult, and chat or messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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