Donatella Maschio, BACP

Donatella Maschio is a psychotherapist, counsellor, supervisor and family practitioner with more than 27 years of professional experience across private practice and organisational settings. She completed an MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy with a Means to Health at the University of Surrey and went on to train as a Systemic Family Practitioner at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. Her career has included teaching and managing counselling courses as well as therapeutic roles in both public and private sector organisations.

Donatella works with individuals, couples, families and groups, offering support for relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns and depression. Her additional focus areas include attachment issues, blended family challenges, communication and workplace problems, multicultural matters and the needs of young adults. She currently advises staff on the emotional health of children in residential settings, drawing on her experience in family practice and organisational work.

Donatella is an accredited member of BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and is a member as a family practitioner with AFT. She offers therapy in English and Italian and is available to work with international clients.

Systemic and Attachment-Informed Approaches for Online Therapy

Donatella offers therapy informed by systemic family practice and core counselling and psychotherapy training. Systemic family therapy focuses on patterns of interaction within couples, families and other close systems - it helps address relationship dynamics, blended family challenges and communication problems by looking at how people influence one another.

Counselling and psychotherapy work offers a space to explore emotional difficulties such as depression, trauma responses and questions of life purpose. This approach supports emotional processing, problem solving and personal insight over time and is suited to individuals, couples and groups.

She also attends to attachment-related concerns, helping clients understand how early relational patterns affect current relationships and parenting. Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Donatella works collaboratively with each person to determine which techniques best fit their needs, goals and preferences, adjusting the focus as therapy progresses.

Online therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging provides practical flexibility for people with busy schedules, geographic constraints or caregiving responsibilities. These options make it easier to maintain regular sessions, connect across time zones and continue consistent therapeutic work with registered professionals and therapists who can adapt methods to an online setting.