Bridget Donkin, BACP
Bridget Donkin is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns and life changes.
About Bridget
Bridget Donkin is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns and life changes. She writes plainly and listens for what matters most to each person. Her work suits people who want a thoughtful, steady and practical space to talk things through.
With ten years of experience, Bridget draws on client-centred ways of working that keep the person's experience at the heart of therapy. She also uses emotionally-focused methods to look at feelings in relationships, and narrative ideas to help people reframe difficult stories.
Background and approach
These approaches are used alongside mindfulness to build calm and clearer thinking. Sessions tend to be conversational and grounded. Bridget helps people name emotions, notice patterns, and try small changes that make daily life easier.
She pays attention to practical problems like sleep, appetite and daily routines as well as deeper issues such as grief, trauma, identity and compulsive behaviours. She has supported people with a wide range of concerns including addiction, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, bipolar challenges, anger and low self-esteem.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, autism and neurodiversity, body image, chronic illness and caregiving stress. Bridget is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers sessions in English and works with people in the United Kingdom and internationally via remote formats.
If someone wants clear practical steps alongside emotional listening, she aims to work at the client’s pace.
Details from the counsellor's public professional profile · registration number listed
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| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 301489 | June 2026 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Bridget lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Ways of working Bridget names
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor lists and does not check training records.
How Bridget’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and following the person’s pace. Online sessions give space for that same careful listening and help people feel understood while they talk about stress, grief or low mood.Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) helps people identify and work with strong feelings in relationships and attachments. In remote work this can look like guided conversations about how emotions affect interactions and small experiments to try between sessions.
Narrative therapy helps people tell different stories about themselves and their problems. By noticing unhelpful themes and testing new ways of making sense, people often find more choice in how they respond to difficult situations.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Bridget will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to use and how to adapt them for remote sessions. This is a collaborative process tailored to individual needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls suit in-depth conversations and visual connection, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets someone check in quickly, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflections between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and differing daily rhythms.
Frequently asked
What problems does Bridget help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief and depression, and a wide range of other concerns such as addictions, trauma, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD and career stress.
What style of therapy does she use?
Her style is conversational and person-centred, using emotionally-focused and narrative techniques alongside mindfulness to help people understand feelings and change unhelpful patterns.
How much experience does she have?
Bridget has ten years of clinical experience working with a broad range of emotional and behavioural issues.
What professional affiliation does she have and where is she based?
She is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
Bridget offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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