Donna Rowley
Experienced counsellor for stress and trauma
About Donna
Donna Rowley is a UK-based counsellor with 15 years of experience helping people navigate difficult life moments. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief and depression. Donna meets people where they are and aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
Donna takes a respectful and compassionate approach. She listens first and then tailors work to each person’s needs. Conversations focus on what's most pressing and on small, practical changes that make everyday life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative. Donna helps people identify goals and tries out ways of working that suit the individual. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address the roots of distress as well as the day-to-day patterns that keep problems active.
Her practice also supports people dealing with issues linked to abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment, body image, caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, commitment and control issues, dissociation, relationship breakup, domestic violence, substance use, eating concerns and feelings of emptiness. She adapts the focus to what each person brings into the room.
Donna aims to create a calm, straightforward space for talking things through. She explains options clearly and helps people pace the work so it feels doable. The emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
What Donna works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Donna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people understand patterns and make changes. One common approach focuses on understanding how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact to keep problems going; it helps with anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits by teaching practical ways to break those cycles. Another approach concentrates on trauma-informed care that helps people process painful experiences at a pace they can manage, reducing the hold those memories have on daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss what has and hasn’t worked before, outline possible ways of working, and agree a plan with the client that fits their needs, pace and preferences. Adjustments are made as the work progresses to ensure the approach feels helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when that feels useful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing or want to fit therapy around work and family commitments. These options make it simpler to access care from different locations and at a range of times.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
