Donna Tibby, BACP

Donna Tibby is a BACP counsellor with three years' experience offering therapy to adults. She greets clients with a calm, compassionate style and focuses on helping people untangle painful feelings and persistent thoughts. Donna uses clear, plain language so people can understand what to expect in sessions.

Donna works with common issues such as stress, anxiety, low mood and racing thoughts. She also supports people dealing with relationship difficulty, grief, addictions, self-esteem problems and adjustment to life changes. She aims to help people question unhelpful labels and build new ways of living and thinking.

Her practice is integrative, mixing approaches to suit each person. That means sessions are shaped around what feels most helpful, whether people need short-term practical strategies or deeper, longer-term reflection. Donna emphasises kindness and curiosity when looking at difficult memories and patterns.

Sessions may cover how thoughts and everyday habits keep problems going and how to make small, manageable changes. She also addresses issues such as parenting strain, caregiving stress, body image, chronic illness and intimacy-related concerns. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness.

Donna follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ethical framework and holds an Enhanced DBS check. To begin, people use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling sessions.

Approaches that shape online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and encourages action that matches personal values. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical steps to change patterns that keep problems going. It can help with anxiety, depression and sleep or eating difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships affect current ways of relating and can be useful when attachment issues, abandonment or relationship patterns cause distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your needs and try different ways of working together to find what fits best. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted as you make progress or new issues arise.

Confirm the therapist's current online session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around daily life, such as taking a counselling hour during a lunch break or avoiding travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins when you need them and reduce the need to use up time getting to appointments. Discuss practical arrangements and preferences when you arrange your first session so sessions suit your routine.