Donna Murison, MBACP (Accred)
Calm, practical therapy for everyday struggles
About Donna
Donna Murison, MBACP (Accred) offers support for a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting strains. She welcomes people coping with life changes, chronic illness, compassion fatigue, eating and sleeping difficulties, and other challenges that affect day-to-day life. Donna aims to make first steps into therapy feel calm and manageable.
Her approach is flexible and person-centred. She uses cognitive behavioural ideas alongside acceptance and compassion-focused ways of working.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical strategies, clearer thinking, and skills to handle intense emotions. The therapist works with clients to set realistic goals and build a toolkit for coping. Donna brings ten years of experience to her practice and holds accreditation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, MBACP (Accred).
She follows professional ethical guidelines and engages in regular supervision and ongoing professional development. Sessions can explore how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact, as well as how attachment patterns or past experiences shape current struggles. She offers gentle, non-judgemental exploration of shame, self-criticism and inner harshness, supporting people to develop more self-compassion and emotional steadiness.
Practical options include short-term, solution-focused work or longer-term therapy depending on what someone needs. Clients can expect a warm, patient, and genuine therapeutic relationship that aims to make changes feel achievable.
What Donna works with
How Donna works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting pushed around by them. It focuses on what matters to you and builds small, practical actions you can take towards a valued life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect and teaches tools to change unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current ways of relating and emotion regulation, and supports rebuilding safer ways of connecting with yourself and others. Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify their goals, preferences and the issues that matter most. Together they will try methods that fit and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls are low-bandwidth and simpler to fit into a busy day, and live chat or messaging can help with shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it possible to access support from different places and at different times while still keeping the work focused and practical.| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
