About Donna
Dr. Donna Winsor helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She also supports people dealing with trauma, parenting pressures, relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, career questions, and caregiver strain.
Her goal is to make the first step feel less overwhelming and more manageable. Donna is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with about 20 years of experience. She aims to create an atmosphere where people feel heard and respected.
Background and approach
In early sessions she focuses on building trust and understanding each person's priorities. Her approach emphasizes practical skills. She teaches techniques to reduce anxiety, improve communication, and rebuild confidence.
Sessions often include goal-focused work and strategies that can be put into practice between meetings. She uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness, along with solution-focused and motivational approaches. These tools are chosen to fit what each person needs, whether the aim is symptom relief or making life changes.
Donna values a direct, empathetic style. She listens without judgment and encourages steady steps toward meaningful goals. Her experience includes helping people impacted by adoption and foster care, aging and caregiver stress, attachment and autism-related concerns, and issues such as codependency, forgiveness, and financial stress.
People can expect straightforward guidance, collaborative planning, and attention to real-world changes that matter to daily life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Many clients find cognitive behavioral work helpful for anxiety and mood concerns because it focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors in everyday life. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce distress and improve focus during stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That plan can change over time as priorities shift and progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls make it possible to meet face-to-face without travel, phone sessions can fit a short check-in or work break when video isn't an option, and live chat or text-based messaging lets people share updates and practice skills between appointments. These options help people work therapy into real-life schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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