About Donna
Donna Mcallister is a counsellor who uses practical, goal-focused methods to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Therapeutic Counselling (HONS) and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, with three years of professional experience. Donna writes simply and directly to make first steps less daunting.
She works with common problems such as stress, anxiety and depression, and supports people facing burnout or big life changes.
Background and approach
Donna also helps with relationship strain, low self-esteem, grief and intimacy-related concerns. Her wider interests include issues linked to neurodiversity, adoption and foster care, chronic illness, and managing caregiver stress. Donna draws on approaches like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy.
Sessions focus on what is useful right now – noticing unhelpful patterns, trying small changes and building clearer choices. She aims to make techniques easy to use between sessions. In the therapy room she keeps the tone calm and straightforward.
People can expect a respectful, non-judgemental atmosphere and a chance to talk through thoughts and feelings at their own pace. Donna believes the first step takes courage and offers steady support through that process. She offers sessions in English and meets people across the United Kingdom and internationally.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Donna often uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical behaviour changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, phobias, low mood and sleep problems because it breaks issues into manageable steps.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify their values and take small actions that matter to them. ACT can be helpful when problems feel overwhelming and a fresh way of relating to difficult thoughts and feelings is needed.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Donna will discuss options and try methods that fit the client's goals and preferences, adjusting as needed. The focus is on what works in everyday life and what the person wants to achieve.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing notes or brief reflections between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work and caring responsibilities and to keep contact consistent when travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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