Donna Lemaitre
Experienced integrative counsellor offering online support
About Donna
Donna Lemaitre is an Integrative counsellor and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has eight years of experience working with people who are struggling to cope and offers sessions online through video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Donna aims to create a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk at their own pace.
She combines a person-centred way of working with practical tools drawn from other approaches.
Background and approach
That means she listens first and helps people make sense of their feelings, while also teaching skills to manage anxiety, low mood, or difficult memories. She has completed continuing professional development in trauma, bereavement, anxiety, depression, self-acceptance and low self-esteem. Donna has experience supporting people through grief and life transitions, including bereavement work carried out at a hospice.
She has also volunteered with a mental health charity, working with depression, stress, PTSD, anger and related challenges. Her background gives her familiarity with a wide range of common life difficulties. In sessions she encourages clients to build insight and confidence.
She will tailor the way she works to each person’s needs and draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioural strategies, attachment ideas and emotionally focused techniques as appropriate. The focus is on helping people find practical steps and new perspective.
If someone is unsure where to start she offers an initial conversation to discuss what’s going on and see whether working together feels like a good fit. She recognises that reaching out can feel hard and aims to make that first step as straightforward as possible.
What Donna works with
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Sessions & fees
How Donna’s approaches work online
Donna uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in some work, which focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and choosing actions that match values rather than getting stuck in avoidance. ACT can help with anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes.She also draws on Attachment-Based ideas, which look at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current ways of relating. That approach can be useful for intimacy issues, abandonment worries and communication difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Donna collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their concerns, goals and preferences. She listens to how someone responds and adapts the work as needed rather than sticking to one fixed method.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and build rapport; phone sessions can work better when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection, or people who prefer not to speak aloud. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while still working with registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
