About Donald
Donald Holland is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 40 years of experience. He offers calm, straightforward support for parents and adults concerned about stress, anxiety, ADHD, addictions, grief, and depression. He speaks English and works with people from North Carolina and beyond.
In sessions he focuses on helping people talk about what is most troubling in their day-to-day life. He aims to make the room a place where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment.
Background and approach
The work often involves practical skills people can use between meetings, along with time to talk through difficult memories and reactions. His background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, sexual and substance addictions, and adjustment after loss. He has also supported people dealing with autism spectrum concerns, codependency and abandonment wounds, and complex medical or caregiving stress.
Donald draws on several approaches to match what each person needs. He uses strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action, and Attachment-Based ideas to address relationship patterns. People who choose him often want practical tools as well as space to process hard feelings.
He encourages gradual steps and regular check-ins to track progress. The aim is clearer routines, fewer crises, and more control over everyday challenges.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes clarifying what matters most to you and taking small actions toward those values, even when thoughts or feelings are difficult. It can help with anxiety, depression, and living with ADHD-related distractions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and habit change. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating to others and themselves.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they adjust techniques over time so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when travel is difficult. Phone sessions work well for people who prefer not to be on camera or need a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients write when it’s most convenient and use messages for brief updates or between-session support. These options provide flexibility so people can keep momentum while managing work, family, or health demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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