Isla Donaldson, NCPS

Isla Donaldson is a UK-based therapist who brings five years of practice supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She works relationally and person-centred, helping people reconnect with their immediate experience and use that awareness as a resource for making life feel more balanced and meaningful. Isla blends a trauma-informed, somatic lens with a humanistic foundation so that sensations, emotions and bodily responses are used as important signals for understanding, emotion processing and nervous system regulation.

In sessions she creates a collaborative space characterized by presence, empathy and careful challenge, allowing each person to lead the pace and direction of the work. This approach aims to foster greater self-awareness, self-acceptance and an embodied sense of safety, all of which can support clearer decision making, increased resilience and more trusting relationships with oneself and others. Isla has experience with adults and young people facing issues such as grief and loss, suicidal ideation, self-harm, and the aftermath of sexual assault and abuse.

She holds NCPS, a professional counselling and psychotherapy credential, and a first-class BA in Humanistic Counselling Practice. Isla has completed further training in areas including somatics and embodiment, integrative somatic trauma therapy, polyvagal theory, attachment, internal family systems, sex and sexuality, boundaries and consent, safeguarding, and applied suicide intervention. Her practice emphasizes respect, curiosity and a steady commitment to ongoing professional development.