About Donna
Donna Murison, MBACP (Accred) offers support for stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship strain. She also helps with ADHD, self‑esteem, addiction concerns, sleep and eating difficulties. Donna aims to make those first steps calm and straightforward so people can start talking about what matters to them.
She uses a blend of approaches and keeps sessions practical and down to earth. Conversations focus on thoughts, feelings and everyday behaviour. The work may include learning new coping skills, noticing physical responses in the body, and building kinder ways of thinking about yourself.
Background and approach
Donna has ten years of experience and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, accredited as MBACP (Accred). She draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment ideas, and client‑centred listening to shape sessions around each person’s needs. People can choose short‑term, goal‑focused work or a longer process aimed at deeper change.
Donna emphasises practical tools alongside exploring how past experiences affect current reactions. Sessions move at the client’s pace and aim to leave people with strategies they can use day to day. She also pays attention to how the body holds stress and emotion, integrating somatic awareness into conversation and exercises.
This helps when anxiety, trauma or overwhelm show up as tightness, sleep problems or physical restlessness. Donna adapts the pace and methods to suit each person’s situation and goals.
How Donna’s approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic awareness pays attention to bodily signals like tightness, breath or tension and links them to feelings and thoughts. Online sessions can still use gentle body‑based noticing and simple grounding exercises to reduce overwhelm and improve sleep or anxiety symptoms.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and practical actions, helping people accept difficult thoughts while committing to small changes. It is useful for stress, anxiety, low mood and life transitions, and can be practised through short online exercises and between‑session tasks.
Attachment‑based ideas look at how early patterns shape current relationships and trust. In online work this can help people spot repeated dynamics and rehearse new ways of relating, whether the concern is intimacy, communication or coping with loss.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be decided together. The therapist will listen to goals, try methods, and adjust plans so the work matches what the person needs and prefers.
Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. This flexibility helps people fit therapy around family, work or mobility needs, and it makes it easier to keep momentum between sessions by using messaging and brief check‑ins.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- 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
- 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)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English