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Donna Lemaitre, BACP

Credentials: BACP
Experience: 8 years
Practising in: United Kingdom
Languages: English
Sessions: Online only
Client ages: Adults, 18 and over

Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuse Grief Self esteem

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Donna Lemaitre is a counsellor with eight years of practice and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She works online and via phone, offering a steady, empathic presence for people facing difficult moments. Donna aims to make the first step feel less daunting and listens without judgement to whatever a person brings.

She trained in online and telephone counselling and continues further study in psychotherapeutic and integrative approaches.

Background and approach

Her background includes volunteering with a mental health charity and supporting bereavement at a hospice, where she helped people navigate grief and other losses. These roles shaped a practical focus on issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and low self-esteem. Donna uses a person-centred foundation alongside a mix of methods drawn from cognitive behavioural work, attachment ideas and emotion-focused practices.

Sessions move at each person’s pace and concentrate on developing insight, self-awareness and coping strategies that fit day-to-day life. She also addresses specific concerns like relationship pain, parenting stress, addiction-related struggles and career pressures. Her practice pays attention to how past attachments and losses affect present feelings and choices.

She helps people make sense of patterns such as abandonment fears, codependency or communication difficulties, and supports steps toward clearer boundaries and stronger self-worth. Donna describes counselling as a collaborative process. She helps individuals set goals, practise new ways of responding and build confidence so they can manage change more effectively.

How Donna’s approaches work in online therapy

Donna often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based Therapy in her online work. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and supports living in line with personal values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and helps people understand and change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Donna treats the choice of method as collaborative and tailors it to each person's goals, needs and preferences. She will talk through options and adapt techniques over time so they fit what a person wants to achieve.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep visual contact and read non-verbal cues, phone sessions can be a quicker or lower-bandwidth option, and live chat or text messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to access a registered professional from different locations.

What kinds of problems does she help with?

Donna works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem and addictions, among other concerns listed in her specialities.

How would she describe her therapeutic style?

Her work is mainly person-centred, with techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy, attachment-based ideas and emotion-focused work used as needed to suit each person.

What is her professional background?

She has eight years' experience, has volunteered for a mental health charity and provided bereavement support at a hospice, and continues advanced training in integrative counselling.

What credential does she hold and where is she based?

She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises from the United Kingdom.

Which languages and international arrangements are supported?

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts clients from outside the UK.

What session formats are available?

People can meet via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on their preference.

How are sessions paid for?

Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin if I want to try counselling?

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Areas of focus

What this therapist works with

Most often

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse

Also listed

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 8 years
Registered with: BACP
Languages: English

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Donna Lemaitre, BACP

Background and approach

How Donna’s approaches work in online therapy

Areas of focus

What this therapist works with

Others working with stress, anxiety