Donna Peters, BACP

Donna Peters works with stress, anxiety, grief, anger, low self-esteem and depression. She also focuses on divorce and separation, guilt and shame, panic and panic attacks, self-love, social anxiety and phobia, and issues affecting young adults. Donna uses a calm, non-judgemental style to help people talk through what feels most urgent to them.

Donna has four years' experience working as a counsellor and holds BACP registration. She also spent over 20 years in professional roles within the NHS before moving into counselling work. Those roles, plus seven years volunteering at a bereavement charity, shaped how she supports people facing loss and major life changes.

Her practice is integrative in approach, which means she draws on a few different evidence-based techniques to match a person’s needs. She will work in a person-centred way and bring in cognitive behavioural ideas or solution-focused strategies when these suit the situation. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented when helpful, with time for listening and reflection.

Donna records more than 450 clinical counselling hours across face-to-face, phone and online contacts. She aims to create a respectful space so people can make small changes that add up over time. Donna encourages clients to notice progress between sessions and to set realistic next steps.

People considering counselling are invited to take the next step by completing a short matching questionnaire and arranging a session. The process begins with the Start Therapy button and a simple booking flow.

How Donna uses practical approaches online

Donna draws on person-centred work and uses cognitive behavioural ideas when they fit the issue. Person-centred work focuses on listening carefully and helping people find their own answers, which can help with low self-esteem and grief. Cognitive behavioural techniques look at patterns of thought and behaviour and are often useful for anxiety, panic and depression.

She also uses solution-focused brief techniques to set clear, short-term goals and track small steps forward. These methods are brief and practical, so they can help people who want focused strategies for particular problems like panic attacks or relationship endings. Donna will work collaboratively to choose which approach suits each person’s goals and preferences rather than prescribing a single method.

If you are considering online therapy, check the session formats available before booking since the biography lists experience with face-to-face, phone and online contacts but does not specify current options. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling around busy lives, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-in sessions when needed. A counsellor can also adapt exercises and homework to work well between meetings so progress continues outside sessions.