About Donna
Donna Cummings is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and changes that feel overwhelming. Donna also supports people working on self-esteem, life skills, and relationships.
She offers coaching for those who want practical guidance rather than therapy. Donna has two decades of experience in the mental health field. She completed a master's degree in 2015 after nearly a decade of hands-on work.
Background and approach
That background means she has worked with a wide range of concerns, from substance use to grief and burnout. She brings a down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on usable tools rather than jargon. In sessions she draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, alongside mindfulness and client-centered methods.
Those approaches help people notice unhelpful patterns, try small changes, and build more meaningful routines. Motivational interviewing is used when someone wants to find their own reasons to change. Donna pays attention to cultural differences and individual values.
She aims for a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can talk frankly about goals and struggles. Her work also covers practical family and caregiving stress, blended family issues, codependency, and first responder concerns. People who choose coaching can expect goal-focused conversations about habits and life skills.
For those seeking therapy, Donna balances compassion with clear steps to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Donna often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on approach that identifies unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and tests small changes to reduce symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Donna will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. Sessions can be adjusted over time as needs change, blending mindfulness tools, motivational interviewing, or client-centered conversations when appropriate.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Chat and messaging offer quick check-ins or brief coaching and can fit into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to get consistent support while balancing work, family, and day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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