Donna Peters, BACP

Donna Peters combines extensive professional experience with targeted counselling training to support people facing grief, anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and related concerns. She has more than 20 years of professional experience working within the NHS and over four years of direct counselling practice, during which she has completed in excess of 450 clinical hours working with clients in person, by phone, and online. Donna also spent seven years volunteering with a bereavement charity, supporting both adults and young people through loss and mourning.

She is a registered member of BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and draws on both person-centred principles and an integrative counselling qualification in her work. As an integrative counsellor she adapts her approach to individual needs, employing techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and Solution Focused Brief Therapy when appropriate. Her clinical interests include anger management, panic disorder and panic attacks, social anxiety and phobia, depression, and issues common to young adults, as well as themes such as self-love, guilt and shame, and the emotional impact of divorce and separation.

Donna emphasises respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care, and aims to create a supportive space where people can explore feelings, build coping skills, and work toward greater self-understanding. She recognises the courage it takes to begin therapy and encourages anyone considering support to acknowledge that first step.