About Donna
Donna Tibby is a BACP counsellor who offers therapy for adults aged 18 and over. She draws on several approaches to support people through anxiety, low mood, grief and life changes. Donna aims to make therapy straightforward and practical, so people can start to feel more able to cope with daily pressures.
Her style is warm and compassionate, with an emphasis on listening first. She helps people look at unhelpful beliefs and small patterns that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to each person, whether they want short-term focused work or a longer course of therapy. Donna blends approaches such as cognitive behavioural ideas, acceptance and commitment work, and attachment-focused listening. That mix is used to build a personalised plan that suits the issue and the person.
The aim is clearer understanding and manageable steps forward rather than quick fixes. She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, addictions, self-esteem and depression. Donna also supports people dealing with parenting stresses, career change, chronic illness and body image challenges.
She lists additional focuses such as adoption and foster care, abandonment, and caregiving strain. Sessions are available across the United Kingdom by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Donna follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ethical framework and has an Enhanced DBS check.
How Donna’s approaches work online
Donna uses cognitive behavioural ideas and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts and try small practical changes. CBT focuses on identifying patterns in thinking and behaviour and testing new ways of responding. ACT encourages noticing difficult thoughts and values-based action so life becomes more meaningful even with painful feelings.She also uses attachment-based listening to explore how early relationships shape present patterns. That work can help people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and build different ways of relating. Donna treats approach selection as a collaborative process and will discuss which methods suit the person's goals and preferences rather than assuming one path fits all.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets you work face to face when that matters. Phone can be easier for lower bandwidth or when being on camera feels difficult. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy around work, caregiving and daily life while using the approaches above to address anxiety, phobias, grief and other concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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