About Donna
Donna Young is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship strain. She has 25 years of experience and writes plainly with practical guidance for people feeling overwhelmed. Donna listens for what feels most urgent and helps break problems into small steps.
She uses straightforward tools so clients can try things between sessions. Her approach aims for clearer thinking, calmer reactions, and workable changes at home and work.
How Donna works
Her training includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a graduate degree in counseling psychology. Donna has practiced since 1995 in schools, health care settings, and local and federal agencies. That range shaped a practical style that values real-life solutions.
In sessions she mixes techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and solution-focused and mindfulness-based methods. That lets her tailor sessions to the person’s needs and goals rather than use a one-size-fits-all plan. She often helps people dealing with parenting stress, caregiver strain, workplace pressure, trauma and abuse, and life transitions.
Donna also supports those facing isolation, midlife questions, and challenges tied to prejudice and discrimination. Her work emphasizes small, doable changes and building skills for long-term coping. People who prefer clear steps, brief homework, and a calm, direct therapist may find her style helpful.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Evidence-informed approaches delivered online
Donna uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based methods to help people change unhelpful thinking and build calm habits. CBT focuses on identifying patterns of thought and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness.She treats therapy as a collaborative process. Together the therapist and client decide which approach fits the person's goals and life context. That might mean trying a short skills-focused plan or combining mindfulness with cognitive work, and adjustments are made as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and small goals between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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