Donna Mcallister
Supportive counsellor for stress and relationships
About Donna
Donna Mcallister is a counsellor who draws on client-centred work to help people make sense of stress and anxiety. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Therapeutic Counselling (Hons) and has three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
Donna aims to offer a calm space where people can begin to untangle difficult feelings and think about what they want to change. She uses plain, practical approaches to support people with depression, burnout and life transitions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her, with tools from cognitive behavioural work and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when helpful. This helps people learn new ways to cope and handle everyday pressures. Donna also brings attachment-based ideas into conversations about relationships and intimacy-related issues.
That can help people understand patterns that affect trust, closeness and emotional safety. She works with matters such as grief, trauma and compassion fatigue with steady, paced attention. Other areas she addresses include addictions, eating and sleeping problems, body image, career concerns, ADHD and complex care needs.
She is comfortable talking about less common topics too, including kink and blended family dynamics. Work is tailored so sessions meet the person’s goals and pace. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in the UK and internationally.
Donna invites anyone taking a first step to reach out and try a short conversation to see if the fit feels right.
What Donna works with
How Donna works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and focus on values-driven actions instead. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and managing life changes by teaching practical exercises and simple values work.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and offers tools to change unhelpful cycles. It can be effective for anxiety, depression, sleep problems and coping with stress by using structured exercises and homework.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses. It can help with intimacy-related issues, relationship distress and understanding why certain reactions keep repeating.
Finding the best approach is a shared task. The counsellor will discuss different methods and try approaches that match the person’s goals and comfort. Sessions are collaborative, with adjustments made as new needs emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, chat allows shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and to maintain continuity when circumstances change.
| 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
