Counsellor profile
Donna Hendricks, BACP, NCPS
BACP NCPS counsellor - family and parenting focus
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- Stress and anxiety
- Trauma and grief
- Parenting concerns
About Donna
Donna Hendricks is a BACP and NCPS registered counsellor with 12 years' experience working with adults in voluntary, private and NHS settings. She offers help for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, self-esteem, relationship concerns and parenting pressures. Donna also supports people facing ADHD, bipolar difficulties, eating concerns and career stress.
Her core training is in the person-centred approach, and she also practises cognitive behavioural methods learned during a Masters in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy. Donna uses these ways of working to help people make sense of upsetting events and to build practical coping skills. She focuses on what has happened to someone rather than what is wrong with them.
In sessions she listens carefully and asks questions to understand how a client’s life looks day to day. That helps identify small, manageable changes and practical strategies. She draws on solution-focused ideas for goal-setting and uses ACT and DBT techniques where they fit the concern.
Her background includes work across different settings, which she brings into a straightforward, down-to-earth clinical approach. People who contact her are often dealing with family tensions, parenting strain, loss, or ongoing anxiety and low mood. She aims to help people notice patterns, try new responses, and gradually feel more in control.
To begin, Donna asks clients to describe their priorities so sessions can focus on the most pressing problems. She encourages honest conversation about what helps and what does not, and adapts her ways of working as understanding grows.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Donna often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in her work. ACT focuses on identifying values and learning ways to act in line with those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers structured ways to test and change unhelpful patterns.She also draws on Client-Centred principles, which mean listening closely and treating the client as the expert on their own life. Finding the right approach is part of the process; the therapist will work with the client to choose which methods suit their goals and preferences and adjust those methods over time.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm the available online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around childcare, work breaks or other commitments, and can allow for shorter check-ins or meetings without travel. Registered and accredited professionals commonly use online sessions to maintain continuity of care and to try techniques that suit everyday life.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
12+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she work with?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, parenting concerns, relationship and family issues, eating concerns, ADHD and bipolar among other areas.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her core style is person-centred, combined with cognitive behavioural methods, acceptance and commitment ideas and solution-focused techniques to set practical goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 12 years' experience working with adult clients in voluntary, private and NHS settings.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with BACP and NCPS and works from the United Kingdom.
Can she work in other languages or with clients abroad?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I get started with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.