Donna Tibby, BACP

Donna Tibby is a BACP-registered counsellor with three years' experience supporting adults through difficult life stages. She offers short-term and longer-term therapy designed around each person's needs. Donna aims to create a calm, compassionate space where people can talk about what matters to them and feel heard.

She works with a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, low mood and grief. Donna also helps people facing relationship strain, issues around self-esteem, addiction, trauma and coping with major life changes. Midlife crisis is one of the areas she lists as a focus and she supports people navigating that transition.

Donna combines different therapeutic approaches to build a tailored plan for each person. She uses methods that help with thoughts and behaviours, attachment patterns, emotions and values-based change. The emphasis is practical - helping people make small changes that add up over time.

Sessions can be short-term to work on a specific problem or longer-term to uncover deeper patterns. Donna describes her style as compassionate and non-judgemental, aiming to help people move away from unhelpful labels and toward clearer self-understanding.

She works with adults aged 18 and above and follows the ethical framework of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are offered in English and Donna uses a mixture of face-to-face, online and phone options as part of her practice.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps in that direction. It helps when people feel stuck by anxiety, depression or life changes and want to live by their values rather than painful thoughts. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It can be useful for people noticing repeated relationship problems or difficulty trusting others. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises being heard and understood. This approach helps people work through feelings at their own pace and build self-acceptance.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different ideas alongside you, checking what feels helpful and what does not. Over a few sessions the best mix of techniques is agreed together based on your needs and preferences.

Confirm the session formats available before booking, as specific online options are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when that suits. It can also make it simpler to join therapy from wherever you are in the UK, and to maintain continuity of support during life transitions.