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Donna Mcallister, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 3 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesSelf esteemDepressionCoping with life changes
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Donna Mcallister uses a warm, client-centred way of working to help people make sense of difficult feelings. She is a BACP counsellor with three years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. Donna aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive rather than overwhelming.
She combines approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based work. That mix helps her adapt to different concerns, from ongoing anxiety and low mood to coping with big life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps alongside talking through feelings. People come to Donna with many issues including stress, depression, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, grief, trauma and addiction. She also works with challenges like sleep and eating problems, career stress, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related difficulties.
Donna pays attention to how past experiences and attachment patterns shape present reactions. In sessions she offers a calm, non-judgemental setting where thoughts and emotions can be explored. The aim is to build trust and to help clients notice what matters to them and take small, manageable steps towards it.
Techniques are explained in plain language and practised together. Donna accepts international clients and runs online sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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How Donna’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which often helps with stress, sleep and mood problems.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Donna will talk with clients about their goals, preferences and day-to-day realities, and together they will try methods that feel most helpful. Adjustments are made over time so the work fits the person rather than the other way round.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversational experience, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and messaging or live chat can suit people who prefer writing or need brief ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
Contacting Donna
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