Bridget Donkin, BACP
10 years in practice
Bridget Donkin is a BACP-registered counsellor with ten years of practice.
License and registration
- BACP
- 301489 · expires June 2026
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Bridget
Bridget Donkin is a BACP-registered counsellor with ten years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain and grief in straightforward, practical ways. Her approach suits people looking for calm, steady support and clear steps forward.
She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice, name and work with their feelings in the moment. She also draws on client-centred ideas to make sessions collaborative and on existential thinking to help people find meaning when life feels uncertain.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and narrative work appear in sessions when helpful to change unhelpful patterns and tell a different story about oneself. Sessions tend to be conversational and down-to-earth. Bridget listens for what matters most and helps people try small changes between meetings.
She offers ways to manage overwhelming thoughts, handle difficult conversations, and cope with big life shifts. Her background includes a range of experience across adult life stages and many common concerns such as depression, addiction, eating and sleeping issues, parenting stress, bipolar, ADHD and compassion fatigue. Additional interests include attachment, abandonment and the effects of chronic illness or caregiving strain.
Bridget works with individuals who want a thoughtful, feeling-focused approach. She supports people who want to understand their emotional responses, improve relationships, and build everyday coping skills that fit their lives.
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 counseling
- 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
Approaches Bridget names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- 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 therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people bring attention to their present feelings and the patterns that keep distress alive. Online sessions can support this by allowing space to slow down, name emotions and practise new responses in real time. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and working at the client’s pace; this often fits well with video or phone sessions because it keeps the emphasis on the person’s experience. Existential Therapy encourages looking at values, purpose and choice when life feels uncertain, which can be explored through reflective conversation in any online format.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bridget will collaborate with each person to choose methods that suit their needs, goals and preferences. That might mean emphasising feeling-focused exercises, bringing in mindfulness or using narrative techniques to reframe problems. The approach can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use body language and facial cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or other routines while keeping sessions focused on real emotional change.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Bridget help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, trauma and abuse, and a wide range of life challenges including parenting, career strain and coping with illness.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her sessions are feeling-focused and collaborative, using Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside client-centred and existential ideas to help people notice emotions and try different ways of responding.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of clinical experience working with adults across many common difficulties and life stages.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is registered with the BACP and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How are costs and payments handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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