Donna Tibby
Compassionate counsellor for practical change
About Donna
Donna Tibby is a counsellor who offers practical therapy for adults. She brings three years of experience and works from a person-first viewpoint to help people understand what they are feeling and why. Donna is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She meets professional standards set by that body and follows its ethical framework. Donna meets people where they are. She supports those facing stress, anxiety, low mood and trauma-related concerns.
Background and approach
She also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, self-esteem, addiction-related worries, sleep and eating difficulties, and workplace or career strain. Her work covers practical problems such as communication and control issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and challenges after adoption or foster care. Her style blends several approaches into a tailored plan for each person.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Attachment-based ideas and Emotionally-Focused techniques, mixing them with a client-centred stance. Sessions aim to untangle unhelpful thoughts, identify values, and rebuild relationships with oneself and others. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging across the United Kingdom.
International clients are not accepted. Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, use the Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire.
After that, schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability and chosen format.
What Donna works with
How Donna works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. It encourages choosing actions that match what matters most, which can help with anxiety, depression and low mood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical experiments to reduce anxiety and improve sleep or mood. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and communication, helping people improve closeness and reduce repeated patterns in adult relationships.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. Donna will discuss your goals and preferences and together you will choose methods that fit your situation. The focus is collaborative - trying things, checking results and adjusting as needed to make progress that feels meaningful to you.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging gives flexibility for different days and needs. Video is useful for visual connection and deeper conversation, phone calls can fit into short breaks or low-bandwidth situations, and messaging or live chat can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving or health constraints while still working with experienced 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
