About LaDonna
LaDonna Barner offers a calm and down-to-earth place to start when life feels tangled. She focuses on helping people who are worried about relationship strain, family conflict, parenting challenges, self-esteem, and major life changes. LaDonna is a licensed marriage and family therapist with six years of experience and she works from Mississippi.
She keeps sessions straightforward and respectful. Conversations are meant to be real and clear, not full of jargon.
How LaDonna works
People can talk about stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, or struggles like depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, anger, and eating concerns. LaDonna draws on client-centered work that follows the person’s pace. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new patterns.
For couples or intimacy issues she brings elements from the Gottman Method and emotionally-focused work to help rebuild connection. She also supports concerns tied to adoption and foster care, abandonment, attachment issues, caregiver stress, body image, chronic illness, and blended family challenges. LaDonna pays attention to how these life stories shape daily habits and relationships.
Sessions aim to be practical. People leave with ideas to try between meetings and with clearer next steps. Signing up begins with a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling a time that fits your life.
LaDonna lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What LaDonna works with
The areas below are the ones LaDonna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Mississippi |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that adapt to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. It helps people feel heard and supported while they sort out what matters most and decide on next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce distress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions and connection and can be useful when relationship and intimacy concerns are central.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Together the person and the clinician can adjust techniques over time if something is not working or if priorities change.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people read facial cues and hold longer conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, journaling-style reflection, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, school, or family life.
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A practical next step
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