About Donna
Donna Baynes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia. She brings ten years of counseling experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strains, relationship problems, grief, and ADHD concerns. Donna offers a warm, open approach and aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps people can use between meetings. She listens without judgment and works with each person to build small, achievable changes.
Background and approach
Donna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to clarify what really matters to someone and to strengthen motivation for change. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set short-term goals and identify steps that lead to quick gains.
Her background includes work in educational settings with young adults and with parents of students who have special needs. That experience informs how she supports people dealing with caregiving stress, blended family challenges, and communication problems. Donna often helps people manage life transitions, parenting pressures, career doubts, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.
Her practical focus includes coping skills for anxiety, planning around mood concerns like bipolar disorder, and strategies for improving communication and forgiveness. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Donna describes therapy as a collaborative process that begins with a short matching questionnaire and moves toward concrete, personal goals.
How Donna’s Approaches Work Online
Donna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often involves setting small behavioral experiments and practicing new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety or depressive moods.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people clarify their values and strengthen their motivation for change. This approach is helpful when someone feels stuck and needs support deciding what matters most and how to move forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Donna collaborates with each person to pick strategies that match their goals and daily life. She adjusts methods as needed so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to keep progress moving. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, follow-up notes, and brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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