Donald Holland
Experienced family and parenting clinician
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Donald
Donald Holland is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 40 years of experience. He focuses on parenting and family-related concerns alongside a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues. He aims to make first steps toward change feel manageable and supports people through difficult adjustments.
He creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about painful memories, addictions, grief, or daily stress. He uses clear, practical conversation rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize understanding what matters to each person and finding small, doable changes. Donald draws on several therapy methods to guide his work. He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and tolerate tough feelings.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits. He also brings Attachment-Based ideas to questions about early relationships and how they affect present behavior.
Across his long career he has helped with trauma and abuse, ADHD across ages, substance and behavioral addictions, mood concerns like depression and anxiety, eating and sleep difficulties, and challenges tied to adoption, foster care, and aging. He also supports people facing caregiver stress, chronic illness, and identity concerns including LGBT issues. Sessions are offered in English and Donald accepts international clients.
He works with straightforward steps so parents and caregivers can balance family demands while addressing personal struggles.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people get clearer about their values and take small steps toward them even when feelings are hard. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and patterns that get in the way of parenting or daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. This approach is helpful for depression, sleep problems, ADHD-related routines, and changing habits tied to addiction or eating concerns.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape reactions today and can guide work on connection and communication. It can be useful for issues tied to abandonment, adoption and foster care, and attachment difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about problems, goals, and preferences, and then suggest methods to try. That makes the process collaborative rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around parenting schedules, caregiving, work, and travel. The variety of options also lets people choose what feels most comfortable for talking through sensitive topics or practicing new skills.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
Next step
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