Connor O'Donnell

Connor O’Donnell is a qualified therapist who holds a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) and practises in the United Kingdom. He has three years of experience supporting people with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief, depression, major life changes, suicidal thoughts, self-harm, caring responsibilities, trauma, loss, and related concerns.

He has worked with a bereavement service and with a charity that supports carers, experiences he found rewarding.

Connor works from a person-centred perspective, which views each person as the expert on their own life. His role is to provide sessions where clients can explore what is happening for them in their own time and in their own way. Whether someone approaches therapy with a specific issue in mind or is unsure where to begin, he collaborates to find an appropriate path forward.

Sessions are treated as a shared process. At times Connor may reflect a pattern, emotion, or shift in the conversation and invite the client to consider whether it feels meaningful. Other times clients raise observations that guide the work, and together they follow what seems important.

He pays attention to how people are being with one another in the room, since interactions in session can mirror how someone experiences others or how they imagine being experienced. Moments of misunderstanding are treated as natural opportunities to explore how two people try to communicate.

Connor checks in regularly to review how the work is going - what is helpful, what is not, and whether the way they are working together needs to change.

His intention is to offer sessions where clients feel supported to explore and make sense of things at their own pace, with a therapist who listens, remains curious, and treats the work with care and seriousness.

If someone has not yet looked into the different types of therapy available, he encourages reading a short summary of the main approaches to help choose a method that feels like the right fit.