About Donna
Donna Martinez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with ten years of clinical experience. She greets people with a nonjudgmental attitude and a simple message: your story matters and you know it best. Donna aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and affirming.
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, and major life changes. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and struggles with motivation.
Background and approach
Parenting concerns, relationship communication problems, and feelings of isolation are other areas she addresses. Donna focuses on recognizing a person’s strengths and using those strengths to work through challenges. She listens for what matters most to each person and helps them make small, practical shifts.
Sessions are aimed at clear, doable steps rather than long lists of abstract goals. Her approach emphasizes respect and collaboration. She treats clients as partners in planning the work and choosing what to try next.
She encourages forgiveness work, facing guilt and shame, and exploring life purpose and self-love when those issues come up. Therapy with Donna can include short-term problem solving or longer work on deeper patterns. She wants clients to leave each session with something they can use that week.
Starting therapy can take courage, and she affirms that act of reaching out.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Many of Donna's sessions draw on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches tools for managing stress and anxiety, such as breathing strategies, grounding techniques, and stepwise problem solving. These tools are easy to practice between sessions and fit well into short video or phone check-ins.Another frequent focus is trauma-informed support that helps people process difficult experiences at a pace they can manage. This involves stabilizing strategies, building emotional safety, and pacing exposure or memory work in collaboration with the client. It is suited to both longer video sessions and text-based follow-ups to reinforce learning.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try methods that match those needs. Together they adjust the plan as progress is made and new concerns appear.
Online sessions offer practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging provide flexible ways to touch base between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep work moving between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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