About Donna
Donna Baynes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and relationship concerns. She also supports those coping with grief, trauma and abuse, anger, career questions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Donna aims to make first conversations feel calm and practical.
Donna uses straightforward methods that focus on practical change. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
How Donna works
Motivational Interviewing helps when people feel stuck or uncertain about change. Solution-Focused Therapy keeps work short-term and goal-oriented when that fits a persons needs. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental.
Sessions tend to be conversational and goal-driven. She listens for what matters most and helps people set small, realistic steps to try between sessions. Donna has about 10 years of professional experience as an LPC.
She has worked with adults around career stress, family of origin issues, blended family concerns, and caregiver stress. Her background includes time supporting parents of students with special needs and people living with intellectual disability. She works in English and offers several online session formats, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule appointments based on availability.
Donna lists 3 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How Donna's Approaches Work Online
Donna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors that can change how they feel. This approach is practical and often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change. That method is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps. Solution-Focused Therapy is added when short-term, goal-driven work makes sense; it focuses on small, achievable changes rather than long explorations of the past.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Donna will talk with the person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. She aims to match techniques to what the person wants to accomplish and how they prefer to work.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text-based messaging works well for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving between in-person commitments.
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