About Bear
Bear Donna is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who brings three years of professional experience to his practice. He focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and a wide range of life challenges. He aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk honestly about difficult feelings and begin to make changes.
He has worked with people coping with phobias, eating difficulties, attention differences and identity concerns related to LGBT matters.
Background and approach
He also supports those dealing with grief, stress, addictions and relationship strain. His background covers both mood conditions and practical life problems, so sessions can address symptoms and everyday coping together. Bear uses an integrative approach that draws on several evidence-based techniques.
That allows him to tailor sessions to each person rather than follow one fixed style. He emphasises clear, simple strategies you can practise between meetings alongside talking through emotions in the room. Sessions are offered via video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, which gives flexibility for different schedules and communication preferences.
He works in English and is based in the United Kingdom. Many people start with a short questionnaire and an initial session to see how they feel with him. From there he helps set realistic goals and a plan for progress.
The focus is on steady steps and practical tools that fit daily life.
Practical approaches and online counselling
Bear draws on an integrative toolkit that blends talking therapy with concrete techniques. One approach he commonly uses focuses on learning coping skills and behavioural steps to reduce anxiety and phobic responses; this helps people practise small exposures and notice gradual change. He also uses techniques that target mood and thought patterns to help manage depression and stress, teaching ways to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build daily routines that support mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. He will work with the client to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adapt the plan as progress is made. The aim is to find practical strategies the person feels comfortable using between sessions as well as during meetings.
Online therapy with him includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual connection helps the work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in their own time. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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