About Donda
Donda Goodson meets people who are worn out by stress, anxiety, grief, or the daily work of parenting. She focuses on straightforward help and steady support. Donda talks plainly and keeps goals practical so families and individuals can make small, manageable changes that add up over time.
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 32 years of experience. Much of her work has been in mental health agencies and independent practice.
How Donda works
Her education includes an undergraduate degree from Auburn University and a master’s degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Rehabilitation Counseling. Donda sees people dealing with depression, trauma, anger, addiction, ADHD, and autism spectrum concerns. She also helps those coping with chronic illness, life transitions, parenting stress, or relationship conflict in the household.
Sessions emphasize clear skills and steps rather than abstract theory. Her approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness tools. That means she starts by hearing what matters to the person and then adds practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.
She uses techniques from acceptance work and dialectical skills where they fit the client’s goals. In sessions she focuses on usable strategies for mood, coping, and communication. Expect a calm, down-to-earth style that aims for steady progress.
Donda helps clients set realistic steps and practices to use between meetings.
Donda lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Donda works with
The areas below are the ones Donda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 32 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Donda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression, often with homework and clear skill practice. Client-centered therapy prioritizes the person’s experience and aims to create a supportive space where the client’s own goals guide each session.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas and mindfulness techniques to help people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them. These approaches can help with trauma-related stress, addiction struggles, and managing mood by teaching present-moment skills and values-based steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to concerns, review goals, and suggest techniques that fit the client’s needs and preferences. Treatment plans are adjusted as progress is made so the approach stays useful and practical.
Online therapy lets people meet by video, talk by phone, use live chat, or exchange messages by text. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling and consistent care easier to manage.
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