Counsellor profile
Bear Donna, NCPS
NCPS counsellor - family and parenting concerns
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- Anxiety and depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting support
About Bear
Bear Donna is an NCPS credentialed counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. He works with adults on issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, eating difficulties, ADHD and relationship and family concerns. Sessions also address parenting stress, grief, self-esteem, addictions and career-related pressures.
He trained in Integrative and Transactional Analysis psychotherapeutic counselling, which means he draws on several approaches and has a particular familiarity with TA. In practice that looks like mixing short-term tools with deeper conversational work to understand patterns in relationships and behaviour.
Bear uses plain language in sessions and encourages clear, direct conversation about what is causing strain at home. He focuses on helping people name recurring difficulties and test small changes to see what helps. He also supports people dealing with intimacy questions, body image and sexual culture topics such as kink and BDSM.
People can expect practical discussion of coping strategies for sleep, anger, and stress, alongside longer conversations about attachment, abandonment and past hurt. He also works with issues linked to chronic illness and caring for others, and with neurodiversity concerns including autism and Asperger syndrome.
Sessions are aimed at adults wanting to address problems that affect everyday life at home and at work. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule an initial session through the platform button.
How sessions work
How his approaches are used in online sessions
Transactional Analysis is focused on understanding relationship patterns and the recurring roles people play. In practice this looks like identifying common interaction styles and testing different responses to change how people relate to others and to themselves. Integrative work means he draws on several evidence-based techniques and chooses tools that suit the current issue, such as short coping strategies for anxiety or longer conversational work for attachment wounds.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. He will work with the client to clarify immediate goals and longer-term aims, and together they decide which methods to try first. Adjustments are made as progress and preferences become clearer so the work remains practical and relevant to everyday life.
The practical benefits of working online include easier scheduling and fitting sessions into a busy home or work day. Please confirm the platform and session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific session types. Online sessions can make it simpler to have shorter check-ins, avoid travel time and keep therapy part of a regular routine. Registered or accredited professionals often use online work to maintain continuity of care and adapt to a client's changing needs.
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Experience
3+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
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What kinds of problems does he help with?
He works with adults on anxiety, depression, trauma, eating difficulties, ADHD, relationship and family concerns, parenting stress, grief and related issues.
How would you describe his therapeutic style?
He combines Integrative methods with Transactional Analysis and uses straightforward conversation and practical tools to address immediate problems and longer-term patterns.
How much professional experience does he have?
He has three years of professional experience working with adults on a range of mental health and relationship concerns.
What are his credentials and where is he based?
He holds the NCPS credential and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK see him?
He does not accept international clients at this time.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start a first session?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule an initial session once matched.
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.