About Donna
Donna Byxbe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nearly three decades of experience. She offers steady, practical support for people coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, ADHD, relationship strain, and life changes. Her style is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping each person find realistic steps forward.
Donna began her career in community mental health in 1995 and moved into independent practice in 2005. Over the years she has worked across a wide range of concerns, from serious mental health conditions to everyday stressors.
Background and approach
Her long experience gives her familiarity with many common problems people bring to therapy. She blends several approaches rather than using a single method. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing may be used when past traumatic memories are central to the problem. Donna also draws on mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas to help people notice patterns and build self-awareness.
She emphasizes practical tools such as meditation, inner-child work, and communication skills for relationships. Treatment plans are based on what the client wants to change and the goals they set together. She respects each person's right to choose and to decline any suggestion.
The work is collaborative: Donna offers feedback, suggestions, and structure while clients steer the direction of their growth. Her approach aims to help people heal and build stronger, more manageable ways of living.
How Donna Uses Different Therapies Online
Donna often combines Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy means the conversation follows what matters most to the client and the therapist offers empathic listening and gentle guidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practices concrete changes to improve mood and daily functioning.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for clients who are confronting traumatic memories. EMDR involves a structured process to help reduce the intensity of distressing memories and the reactions tied to them; it may be paired with grounding and breathing work during sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Donna will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan over time. The client helps decide what feels most helpful, and the therapist provides options, feedback, and steps to try.
Online therapy offers a range of practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice communication skills in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter check-ins, writing through thoughts, or fitting therapy into a busy day. These formats make it easier to keep regular sessions and build progress over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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