About Donna
Dr. Donna Winsor helps people handle stress, anxiety, trauma, and parenting challenges. She works with issues like depression, relationship strain, grief, anger, and burnout.
Her approach also supports people facing life changes, career decisions, and questions about identity and purpose. Dr. Winsor's warm, straightforward style aims to make therapy feel practical and doable.
She keeps sessions focused on skills you can use right away. Common tools include cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and solution-focused steps to set small, reachable goals.
How Donna works
Mindfulness strategies are often added to help manage strong emotions and ease tension in day-to-day life. Clients can expect a direct, compassionate presence that listens first and offers clear next steps. Dr.
Winsor draws on two decades of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor to shape treatment plans that fit real life. She values building trust and restoring confidence through gradual progress.
Her work also addresses specialized areas such as adoption and foster care, attachment issues, aging and geriatric concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, caregiver stress, and hospice and end-of-life counseling. Other focuses include codependency, communication problems, money and financial issues, and coping with narcissistic relationships. Sessions are available to people in Arizona and to international clients in English.
Dr. Winsor uses practical exercises, motivational interviewing techniques, and short-term goal setting to help people move forward. The emphasis is on clear steps, honest conversation, and building skills that last.
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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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Winsor uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often focuses on small experiments and clear steps to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress. She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. Mindfulness helps people stay present, reduce reactivity, and handle strong emotions more calmly. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences and tailor methods accordingly. That collaborative process helps pick which strategies to try first and when to adjust the plan. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations for deeper interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer a way to exchange brief updates, ask questions between sessions, or receive coaching-style support with flexible timing. Between these options, online therapy supports regular contact, consistent goal-setting, and practical skills practice without the need to travel. Licensed professionals can adapt techniques like CBT and mindfulness to each format so people get tools they can use in daily life.Start online instead of waiting
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