About Donna
Donna Tibby is a counsellor who offers short-term and longer-term therapy for adults aged 18 and over. She brings three years of practice to sessions and works from a person-centred stance that respects each client's experience. Donna listens for what matters most to the individual.
She helps people name upsetting patterns, understand low mood or anxiety, and face difficult life events that feel too big to manage alone. She encourages clients to question unhelpful labels and to try living with fewer limiting beliefs.
Background and approach
Her work combines talking with attention to the body, drawing on somatic ideas alongside cognitive and attachment-focused approaches. The aim is to help people notice how thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations link together and then make practical changes in daily life. Donna tailors sessions to each person rather than using a single method for everyone.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioural ideas and attachment-based ways of exploring relationships when these fit the person's goals. Client-centred principles guide how she builds the relationship in session. Sessions are offered across the United Kingdom via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, and can also be arranged face to face when appropriate.
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, known as BACP, and follows their ethical framework. Those interested begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits their needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that fit their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression and problems that come from feeling stuck. Somatic-informed work brings attention to bodily sensations alongside thoughts and emotions, helping people recognise how the body holds stress and then learn gentle ways to regulate it. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early connections shape current ways of relating and coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and try different methods to see what helps most. This is a collaborative process, with plans adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and mobility needs, and allow people to work from familiar surroundings. They also make follow-up and short check-ins simple, so therapy can be shaped to how a person wants to proceed.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- 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