About Donna
Dr. Donna Daniel helps people navigate grief, anxiety, depression, stress, addiction, relationship struggles, career shifts, and shifts in identity. She also supports concerns such as self-esteem, intimacy questions, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, caregiving stress, body image, and LGBT-related issues.
Donna brings 35 years of counseling experience to her work in New Mexico and uses that background to guide practical conversations. Her style is straightforward and warm.
How Donna works
Sessions focus on where a person is now and what small steps feel doable. She listens for patterns in life stories and uses empathy, narrative reflection, and mindfulness practices to open new perspectives. Clients can expect calm curiosity rather than a rigid script.
Donna draws on client-centered techniques that put the person’s experience first. She also integrates Jungian ideas about meaning, mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity, and psychodynamic and narrative approaches to trace the roots of patterns. These methods aim to make change feel understandable and manageable.
She prefers brief, goal-focused work but is open to longer cycles when needed. Her background includes decades of varied settings, including work with military communities abroad and extensive travel that informs a broad cultural perspective. The credential held is LPCC, which stands for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor.
Outside the office she values spiritual exploration and simple living. That outlook shapes a gentle, practical approach to healing that honors both practical steps and deeper meaning. Many people come to her when they want to shift damaging patterns and make steady forward progress.
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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.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Mexico |
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Online support options
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-centered therapy places the person's experience at the heart of each session. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps the person name priorities and next steps. This approach is useful for stress, self-esteem, and relationship concerns.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Short breath or grounding exercises are used to help with anxiety, grief, and sleep difficulty. These techniques are easy to try during a video or phone check-in.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, past attempts at change, and what feels most comfortable. That conversation guides whether to emphasize client-centered reflection, mindfulness practice, or deeper narrative and psychodynamic exploration. Online sessions offer flexibility for many life situations. Video calls let people use visual cues for richer conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to try different formats until the best fit is found.
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