Donnah Hewlett, BACP, NCPS

Donnah Hewlett is a counsellor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). She has six years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, bereavement and major life changes. She also supports people dealing with compulsive sexual behaviours and pornography addiction, and partners affected by these issues.

Her approach is warm and non-judgemental. Sessions aim to give people space to talk through worries and make sense of difficult feelings. She works to build trust and to help people feel heard before moving on to practical steps.

Donnah draws on a mix of talking therapies and practical techniques. She uses client-centred ways of listening, cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful patterns, and mindfulness to bring attention into the present. Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic thinking also inform longer-term exploration when needed.

People come to her for relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief, low self-esteem and struggles with control or addiction. She can help with issues tied to aging, family of origin, body image and chronic illness. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her, not a one-size-fits-all plan.

She offers sessions from the United Kingdom and works in English. International clients may be accepted. To begin, a short questionnaire is used to match people and then sessions are scheduled according to availability.

How Donnah's approaches translate to online work

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. In practice this means the counsellor follows the person’s lead, reflects what is said and helps them feel understood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) identifies unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and introduces small experiments or exercises to change them; this approach can be useful for anxiety, low mood and stress. Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple attention practices to help people relate differently to difficult feelings and urges, which can be helpful for coping and for managing compulsive behaviours.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The counsellor will talk with the person about what feels most useful and try different methods if needed. Goals and preferences guide whether more skills-based work, deeper psychodynamic reflection or motivational strategies are used together.

Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions around work and family commitments and reducing travel time. Online options can also allow quieter check-ins that do not require being on camera or shorter sessions when that suits a schedule. Session formats are not specified here, so confirm available options with the service before booking. Many people find remote sessions help them keep continuity of care while juggling everyday life.