Bear Donna
Integrative counsellor focusing on practical change
About Bear
Bear Donna trained and practised in the United Kingdom and holds the NCPS credential. He has three years of professional experience working with people facing a wide range of concerns. He aims to create a non-judgmental space where people can talk honestly about what matters to them.
He helps with issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, eating difficulties, ADHD, addiction and grief. He also supports people dealing with sexual identity and LGBT concerns, intimacy-related issues, relationship challenges, parenting stress, and sleep problems.
Background and approach
He has additional focus on topics like attachment and abandonment, body image, and chronic illness. Bear works in an integrative way and uses a core understanding from Transactional Analysis. This means he draws on different therapeutic ideas and keeps the ones that best fit each person.
Sessions tend to focus on building self-awareness, identifying unhelpful patterns, and trying small changes that improve daily life. He uses clear, practical language and aims to make therapy straightforward. Conversations can look at feelings, behaviour, past experiences, and current stresses.
The goal is to find concrete steps that feel manageable between sessions. Sessions are offered online by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. He works in English and is based in the United Kingdom.
To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions according to scheduling options.
What Bear works with
Sessions & fees
How Bear's approaches work online
Bear uses an integrative method with a strong foundation in Transactional Analysis. Transactional Analysis looks at the patterns in how people communicate and relate, helping identify roles and scripts that keep problems repeating. It can be useful for relationship difficulties, communication problems, and understanding recurring emotional responses.He also applies evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. These techniques aim to build coping skills, improve mood and reduce anxiety by working on thoughts, behaviours and routines that affect daily life. They are often short-term and goal-oriented, suitable for concerns like stress, sleep problems, low mood and eating difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. He will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and adapt methods accordingly. Together you will decide which techniques to try and review progress as therapy continues.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflection, or people who find typing easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and daily life.
| 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
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- 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
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
