About Donna
Donna Byxbe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She has nearly three decades of experience and speaks plainly about practical steps clients can take. Donna focuses on clear goals and steady progress in sessions.
Donna spent many years in community mental health before opening a independent practice in 2005. She shifted to telehealth during the pandemic and later resumed practice online.
How Donna works
Her long career includes work with a wide range of concerns from mood disorders to trauma and addiction. Her approach blends several methods to match what each person needs. She uses client-centered work to follow the client's priorities and cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is part of her toolkit for trauma-related symptoms, and she also draws on mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas when useful. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. Donna helps clients identify practical steps, practice new skills, and track progress over time.
She emphasizes respect for each person’s choices and encourages clients to decline suggestions they don’t feel ready for. Parents and individuals who are worried about mood, panic, attachment wounds, or the stress of life changes may find her steady, experienced presence helpful. She works in English and provides care from Texas using online formats suited to each client’s needs.
Donna lists 7 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 29 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches that shape online sessions
Donna uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to the person in session, letting the client's concerns guide goal setting and pacing. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort priorities and make decisions.She also draws on cognitive-behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and when people want concrete tools to manage symptoms. For trauma-related symptoms, she includes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to work through distressing memories in a structured way.
Finding the right approach is a shared task. The therapist will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and comfort with different methods, then adapt the plan over time. Clients help set the pace and can choose which techniques feel most useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps maintain progress between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life while keeping treatment focused and consistent.
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