About Donna
Dr. Donna Daniel is a licensed professional clinical counselor in New Mexico who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She brings 35 years of experience to sessions and aims to meet people where they are.
Her style mixes practical focus with personal attention to what each person needs right now. She uses a blend of client-centered listening and narrative work to help people tell and reshape their story.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce tension and ground attention in stressful moments. Her background also includes psychodynamic and Jungian influences that look at deeper patterns and meaning in a person’s life. Donna describes herself as spiritual rather than religious and respects all faith backgrounds.
She has lived and worked in many places, including military bases overseas, and draws on that wide life experience when helping people adapt to change. She prefers clear, honest conversation and asks that people seeking help are ready to make changes in their patterns.
Sessions can be brief and goal-focused or extend into longer cycles of work depending on what the person wants. Practical tools, gentle reflection, and attention to personal values are woven into her approach. She also addresses concerns such as addiction, sleep and eating issues, trauma, caregiving stress, and identity concerns like gender dysphoria or LGBT-related matters.
People meet with Dr. Daniel for flexible support aimed at movement and insight, whether they want coaching-style guidance or therapy that explores deeper roots of recurring problems.
Online approaches that blend reflection and practical tools
Dr. Daniel often draws on client-centered therapy to provide a listening, nonjudgmental space where conversations follow the client’s concerns and pace; this approach helps with anxiety, self-esteem, and coping with change. She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach attention and breathing skills that reduce stress and improve sleep and focus. Narrative therapy is used to help people rewrite the stories that keep them stuck by naming themes and testing new perspectives.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That process may start with practical exercises and then move to deeper exploration as trust grows.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face when useful, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging offer quick check-ins or shorter coaching contacts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work between sessions.
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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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