About LaDonna
LaDonna Barner is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing anxiety, relationship strain, and life transitions. She aims to make the first step feel manageable and notices small changes clients can build on. Her tone is direct and encouraging, and she focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and improve daily functioning.
She creates a calm space where people can say what they’re thinking and feeling without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear goals and simple tools to handle worry, mood shifts, and communication problems. She draws on conversational, client-centered methods so the person’s priorities guide the work. LaDonna also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with actions that bring relief.
For couples or partners she integrates elements from the Gottman Method and emotionally-focused approaches to strengthen connection and repair conflict. The work often mixes skill practice with gentle reflection. Her background includes six years of clinical experience in Mississippi as an MS LMFT - Master of Science, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
That experience includes helping with grief, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, ADHD, mood concerns, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She pays attention to how daily routines, caregiving demands, and chronic health challenges shape emotional life. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, concrete strategies, and collaborative planning tailored to their situation.
LaDonna helps people set realistic steps, track progress, and adjust the plan as needed.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities. Online sessions using this approach let the therapist mirror concerns, reflect feelings, and help clients decide what matters most in treatment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thought patterns and behavior. In online work CBT often uses short exercises, worksheets, and homework that fit into daily routines to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.Choosing the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether to emphasize listening and reflection, skill-building, or relationship-focused techniques and adjust the plan as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates, get short coaching between sessions, or use written exercises on the go. These options make it easier to fit regular care into a busy life while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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