About Donya
Donya Franklin helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or changes at home and work. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to improve daily life. Donya works with adults on mood concerns, relationship strain, parenting stress, substance issues, and challenges like ADHD and bipolar mood management.
Donya is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 16 years of experience in mental health settings. She has worked in independent practice, community programs, residential care, outpatient services, and a domestic violence facility.
How Donya works
That range gives her experience with crises, long-term struggles, and everyday self-management. Her sessions are collaborative and straightforward. Donya uses goal-focused techniques to identify small changes that add up.
She helps people build coping skills, manage strong emotions, and improve communication with loved ones. She draws from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral strategies to shape treatment around each person. Donya also uses solution-focused tools and approaches informed by relationship work to address communication and intimacy concerns.
She explains steps clearly and adjusts plans as progress is made. People who choose her can expect a direct, supportive style that emphasizes practical steps and measurable progress. Donya invites clients to set clear goals and to test new ways of handling problems between sessions.
The aim is steady improvement that fits daily life.
Donya lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Donya works with
The areas below are the ones Donya selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online care and practical tools
Donya frequently draws on Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities, helping clients feel heard while they set goals. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and build specific coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms. The Gottman Method informs her work on communication and relationship skills, offering structured techniques to improve conversations and repair conflict.Choosing an approach is a collaborative step. Donya works with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and pace. She checks progress and adjusts techniques so the plan stays useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online formats let people fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow more in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins and ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to practice skills consistently and to keep momentum when life gets hectic.
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