About Donya
Donya Franklin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and move toward healthier relationships. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel practical and reachable for someone juggling a busy life. Her style is collaborative - she listens first and helps clients set clear, doable goals.
With 16 years of experience, Donya draws on several approaches to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered methods to make space for each person’s perspective and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also applies the Gottman Method ideas for people working on relationship patterns and Motivational Interviewing to support change when motivation feels low.
Donya has worked across independent practice, community programs, residential settings, and outpatient services, giving her a broad view of how stress and coping show up in daily life. That variety shaped a flexible approach that adapts to different challenges such as grief, trauma, addictions, parenting strain, and issues around identity and intimacy. In sessions she prioritizes trust and clear collaboration.
Clients can expect practical tools, gentle challenge, and space to talk through what matters most. She frames therapy as a partnership where progress happens step by step. People who want down-to-earth help with mood, anxiety, relationship troubles, or life transitions may find her approach a good match.
The focus is on small changes that build toward lasting differences.
How these approaches work in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the client so they feel heard and understood; it helps people clarify goals and build self-trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress. The Gottman Method offers concrete ways to notice and shift relationship patterns and improve communication between partners.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to try methods that match their goals and preferences. That process may include small experiments, homework between sessions, and regular check-ins to see what is helping and what to change.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes those methods easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility so people can keep therapy going around work, family, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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