Donna Watts
Compassionate support for stress and trauma
About Donna
Donna Watts offers straightforward support for people struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, low self-esteem and the impact of trauma and abuse. She keeps sessions simple and practical so someone worried on a phone can quickly see what to expect. Donna aims to create an open, nonjudgemental space where people can talk honestly and make small changes that matter.
With 14 years of experience, Donna works with a wide range of concerns.
Background and approach
She helps people manage relationship difficulties, cope with chronic illness and caregiving strain, and face issues linked to adoption and attachment. Her practice also addresses body image, commitment and communication problems, and complex combinations of challenges that often occur together. Donna draws on client-centred work to follow a person's pace and priorities.
She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build different habits. Attachment-based ideas help when early relationships affect current patterns. Her background includes long-term practice in the United Kingdom and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
That credential is noted here as part of her professional profile. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are welcome. Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging.
People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and booking a time that suits them.
What Donna works with
How Donna works
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Sessions & fees
How Donna's approaches work online
Donna uses client-centred therapy to centre conversations on what matters most to the individual. This means sessions follow the client's pace and choices, and the counsellor reflects and clarifies so people feel heard and understood.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviours. CBT is helpful for anxiety, stress and breaking patterns that keep problems going. Attachment-based therapy is another strand Donna brings into work when past relationships still shape current feelings and reactions, and it helps people build safer ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. Donna will talk about options, listen to the client's goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Sessions can adapt over time as progress and priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversational feel, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and suit quick check-ins. Live chat or text messaging can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day or to continue work between longer sessions. These choices give flexibility and make it simpler to keep continuity of care regardless of location.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
