About Donna
Dr. Donna Daniel helps people manage grief, anxiety, ADHD, depression, stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, and a wide range of life changes. She describes herself as practical and warm, and brings 35 years of counseling experience from work in many settings to each session.
She uses a flexible, person-focused style rather than a single rigid approach. Sessions tend to be conversational and direct. Donna pays attention to both what a person says and how they are feeling in the moment to decide what will help most in that session.
Background and approach
Her work draws on client-centered ideas that keep the person’s goals front and center. She also uses mindfulness practices to help calm the body and refocus attention. Narrative and psychodynamic concepts are woven in when useful to clarify patterns from the past that still affect daily life.
Donna is comfortable addressing difficult topics such as trauma, addiction, loss, gender and sexual identity questions, and caregiver stress. She is also open to faith and spiritual concerns and will discuss how beliefs help or hinder recovery when clients want that explored. Clients can expect practical, short-term strategies as well as deeper cycles of work if needed.
Donna prefers clear intention for therapy - she asks that people be ready to address damaging patterns and to try different ways of working toward change. Sessions are offered from New Mexico by a licensed professional, LPCC.
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people set their own goals and feel heard as they work through stress, loss, or relationship concerns.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage anxiety, sleep problems, and stress-related symptoms. Narrative therapy helps people reframe personal stories and separate problems from their identity, which can be useful for issues like self-esteem and addiction.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she will adjust methods as progress unfolds. That means brief practical steps might come first, with deeper exploration added later if helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people write between scheduled sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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