About Donna
Donna Young is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with 25 years of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety along with depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and workplace concerns. Donna speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel manageable for a worried parent reading on a phone.
She trained in psychology at the University of Virginia and completed graduate study in counseling psychology at Bowie State University. Over the last two decades she has worked in local and federal agencies, schools, and health care settings.
Background and approach
That range gave her experience with trauma and abuse, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue as well as everyday life changes. Donna uses a mix of practical methods in sessions. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for coping and emotion regulation.
She also uses solution-focused and mindfulness practices to build small, useful changes that add up over time. In a typical session she helps people talk through what is most urgent, try short experiments, and practice new ways to handle stress between meetings. Her work is straightforward and goal oriented while still allowing space to process hard feelings.
Clients leave with clear steps they can try at home. Donnas approach centers on real-life problems and useful strategies. She supports people dealing with social anxiety and phobia, midlife transitions, discrimination impacts, life purpose questions, and mood disorders.
Her style is calm, direct, and rooted in years of practical experience.
How Donna’s Approaches Work Online
Donna often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into smaller steps. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that help when feelings are intense or relationships are strained.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences, trying specific techniques and adjusting what’s used based on what helps most. That way the plan evolves from the client’s needs rather than a fixed protocol.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more convenient. Video lets people work face to face when possible, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins or when typing works better. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep working on skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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