My Approach

Donna is an experienced Integrative Psychotherapist and Counsellor. She initially trained in the field of Transactional Analysis through the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy in the 1990s and most recently she was awarded her Masters degree in Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Counselling through Terapia/Middlesex University.

Donna is proud to be accredited with the UKCP. She brings to her clinical practice over twenty-five years working within the statutory mental health and front-line social work field meeting the needs of adults and young people from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. More recently, she provided long and short-term psychotherapy for a youth and community charity, and in partnership with schools and colleges across West Sussex.

Alongside her private practice, Donna also works for TTC Sussex, a multi-disciplinary organisation specialising in long-term attachment and trauma-informed work with adoptive families through ASF and work with private fee-paying families across parts of the Southeast. Donna is also trained to carry out family psychodynamic interventions.

Qualifications

MA. Child.Psych.
Cert.TA.
DipSW.
Cert. Couns.

About Me

Donna offers a therapeutic relationship that is deeply reflective and authentic for both adults and young people. This is a space for all generations that invites a co-creative experience and a safe place to work through painful challenges and internal conflicts to help gain a better understanding of oneself and others.

From her beautiful, quiet space in the coastal town of Selsey, Donna facilitates a creative and imaginative journey that aims to promote self-esteem, support self-discovery and encourage personal growth. Her practice methods are informed by relational and developmental psychology, flavoured with a humanistic and existential philosophy.

Donna is particularly interested in family dynamics and patterns of attachments and relating, which if not nurtured can cause a feeling of disconnection from oneself and worlds away from a life deserved. She pays particular interest in how stress and trauma can affect the nervous system and neurological functioning in individuals and how these factors can feed into family functioning.

Holding a Grade 8 in classical violin, Donna is also deeply interested in the therapeutic power of music. She appreciates an eclectic range of musicality, bringing music and creativity in her work where appropriate.

Whilst understanding how music can help with self-expression, Donna also holds space for some of the more challenging themes around performance anxiety, often resulting from a perfection-driven culture.

I work with

• Children and young people
• Companies
• Couples
• Families
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

Types of Therapies Offered

• Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist