About Donna
Donna Rudd is a licensed professional counselor with 30 years of experience in South Carolina. She listens carefully and helps people break problems into small, workable steps. Her style is calm and respectful, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
Before moving into counseling, she taught in schools from kindergarten through 12th grade. That classroom and guidance work shaped the way she supports parents, young adults, and people facing life transitions.
Background and approach
She draws on everyday strategies to help with focus and the demands of busy family life. In sessions she often uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns. Mindfulness practices are used to build present-moment focus and reduce overwhelm.
She also uses client-centered techniques to follow each person’s priorities and goals. Common concerns she helps with include stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and coping with major life changes. She has experience addressing parenting stress, self-esteem, panic symptoms, trauma and abuse, and issues that affect women and young adults.
Attention difficulties such as ADHD are also part of her work. Her approach is collaborative. Clients set the pace and she offers practical skills, gentle feedback, and encouragement.
Together they shape a plan for change that fits daily life and responsibilities.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s priorities. The therapist offers empathy, reflects what she hears, and helps people decide which goals matter most. This approach is useful when someone wants a supportive space to sort feelings and choose next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions break larger issues into small tasks and teach practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and improve mood. Clients often leave with concrete exercises to try between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences and then recommend techniques to try. This is a collaborative process and methods can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Short check-ins by text or chat can help keep momentum between longer meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or parenting routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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