About Bridget
Bridget Donkin is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or relationship strain. She offers calm, direct conversations and practical steps people can try between sessions. Bridget works in English and accepts international clients who want remote support.
She uses a person-centred stance that focuses on listening carefully and following the person's pace. That means the person leads the conversation while Bridget reflects back what she hears.
Background and approach
She also draws on emotionally-focused ideas to help people understand their feelings in relationships and find clearer ways to connect. Bridget brings ten years of experience in counselling. Her background includes supporting people through grief, depression, trauma, addictions and issues around identity and intimacy.
She has worked with concerns ranging from sleep and eating problems to stress at work and parenting pressures. Sessions can include mindfulness exercises and narrative techniques that help people make sense of difficult stories from their past. Bridget uses these approaches to help people try small, manageable changes and build coping skills over time.
She aims for straightforward language and practical exercises rather than technical jargon. People often come for help with anger, low self-esteem, or life changes such as separation and bereavement. Bridget also offers help with long-term conditions, caregiver stress, and neurodiversity-related concerns.
Her approach is warm, patient and focused on what each person needs in the moment.
How Bridget’s approaches translate to online therapy
Bridget often combines a person-centred way of listening with emotionally-focused work. Person-centred counselling means she follows the person’s lead and reflects what she hears to help the person feel understood. Emotionally-focused ideas help people name and work with feelings that affect relationships and connection.She also uses mindfulness and narrative techniques to help people manage anxiety and make sense of difficult life events. Mindfulness exercises teach simple ways to notice breath and bodily responses, which can reduce reactivity. Narrative work helps people rewrite unhelpful stories they tell about themselves and their relationships.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Bridget will discuss your needs and preferences and try different ways of working until you both find what fits. She adapts methods to suit your goals, whether that means shorter skills practice, deeper emotional work, or weekly reflections on progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes therapy easier to fit around work, family and travel. Video works well for face-to-face style conversations, phone can be lighter on bandwidth, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when a written record of reflections helps. These options give flexibility for different rhythms and routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- 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
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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