Dee has moved her writing including observational articles, musings and cultural analysis on coercive control and psychological abuse to her substack. While a few key essays will remain here, if you’d like to remain connected to future writing on a broader range of topics related to women’s experiences of mid-life transitions, power dynamics within relationships, grief, and recovering from relational harm; these can now be found HERE:
On Second Thought
Dee Donaldson
Clinical Psychologist | Writer
Bio
Donna-Marie Donaldson (Dee) is a writer, coercive control consultant, clinical psychologist and former police-officer whose work spans long-form reflective writing and public-facing analysis. She writes articles and memoir grounded in women’s lived experience, with a focus on harm, voice, power, and the social rules that shape what women are allowed to say.
Her observations on the impacts of gendered abuse and control are drawn from decades working within systems tasked with care, control, and protection; including as a clinical psychologist, as a police officer, and her own lived experiences.
Through a grounded voice and a wry appreciation of the absurd, Dee highlights and questions the social and cultural norms that seek to define, and confine, women.
New writing will be published progressively on Substack, with selected pieces archived below.
