About Donna
Donna Alexander is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of practice experience. She focuses on clear, practical work to help people handle stress, anxiety, grief, and issues around relationships and parenting. Donna uses straightforward tools to help people manage emotions and solve problems.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to strengthen communication and address patterns that get in the way of feeling understood. She also uses the Gottman Method and Solution-Focused Therapy to build practical skills and short-term goals.
How Donna works
Her sessions often start with concrete steps clients can try between meetings. She helps people spot thinking patterns that increase anxiety or depression, and she coaches on communication strategies that reduce conflict. She also offers support for parenting challenges and coping with life changes.
Donna brings attention to feelings like guilt, shame, or low self-esteem and helps people name and work through those emotions. She also provides focused work on career concerns, life purpose, and eating or anger issues. Her background includes work with veterans and armed forces issues, approached with respect for service-related experiences.
Donna aims to create a steady, values-minded space so clients can try new ways of relating and make measurable changes over time.
Donna lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Donna works with
The areas below are the ones Donna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Online approaches that focus on skills and connection
Donna commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and learn practical strategies to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is used to help people identify and name emotions and to improve how they express needs and respond to others in stressful moments. These approaches aim to change patterns that keep problems going and to teach new, usable skills.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try techniques and adjust based on what helps. That teamwork makes it easier to decide whether a skills-based or emotion-focused direction is best.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for conversations that benefit from seeing facial cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can provide quick check-ins, brief coaching, or flexible support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different day-to-day needs.
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