Connor O'Donnell, BACP

Connor O'Donnell is a UK-based counsellor with a postgraduate diploma and three years of practice. He works from a person-centred perspective and offers straightforward, attentive sessions for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression.

Connor aims to create a calm space where clients set the pace. He treats people as the experts on their own lives and listens for what feels most important to them. Sessions focus on helping people make sense of difficult feelings and life changes without pressure to follow a set script.

His background includes work with a bereavement service and a charity supporting carers, which informed his approach to loss and caring responsibilities. That experience contributes to an understanding of grief, caregiver stress and complex life transitions.

In conversation, Connor pays attention to how people relate in the room, and how that might mirror relationships outside the session. He sometimes reflects patterns or shifts so clients can decide whether that feels useful. He also notices moments of misunderstanding as opportunities to learn about communication and connection.

Connor checks in regularly about progress and whether the way of working needs to change. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

People who want a listening, person-centred approach and clear, practical ways to talk through stress, loss or life transitions may find his style helpful.

Person-centred work online and adapting approaches

Connor uses a person-centred approach which focuses on listening, empathy and supporting people to find their own solutions. This way of working helps when someone is facing grief, anxiety, low self-esteem or big life changes because it centres the person's experience and pace rather than following a fixed agenda.

In session the counsellor pays attention to how people relate in the conversation and gently reflects patterns or shifts. That can help clients understand how they communicate or respond to others and to themselves, which is useful for communication problems, guilt, shame and coping with change.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Connor will work with each person to identify what feels helpful and adjust how sessions run based on goals and preferences. The aim is to pick methods that match the issues and the person's comfort with different formats.

Online therapy here is offered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone calls are good when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caring duties and daily life.