Donna Rowley, BACP

Donna Rowley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 15 years of professional experience. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief and depression. Donna works in a respectful, sensitive way and aims to build a trusting dialogue from the first session.

Her practice takes a collaborative approach. She asks questions, listens closely and helps people set practical goals. Sessions focus on identifying patterns that cause distress and trying manageable changes that fit everyday life. Donna pays attention to how attachment, abandonment and past losses can shape current relationships and feelings.

She also addresses issues connected to adoption and foster care, caregiver strain, chronic illness and body image concerns. Practical problems such as communication difficulties, commitment worries and control issues are worked on alongside emotional pain like emptiness, dissociation and grief.

When addiction or domestic violence are part of the picture, Donna helps people map safer steps and consider options. She uses techniques drawn from evidence-based therapeutic approaches and adapts them to what each person needs. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.

Donna describes therapy as a partnership. She supports people to make sense of past experiences and to try out new habits in the present. If you want to begin, the first step is a brief matching questionnaire and then arranging sessions to suit your timetable.

Approaches that guide online work

Donna draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, then practises alternative responses to reduce anxiety and low mood. This is useful for stress, anxiety and depression.

Another strand concentrates on understanding how past attachments and losses shape current feelings and relationships. It helps people make sense of abandonment, attachment issues and grief, and to try out different ways of relating in daily life.

Choosing the right method is part of the work. Donna treats therapy as a collaboration and will discuss which approach fits your needs, goals and preferences. Together you will review what feels most useful and adjust the plan as progress is made.

If you are considering online sessions, check the available formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, cut travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also be helpful when juggling work or caregiving commitments, or when someone prefers not to travel to appointments.