Dr. Donna Daniel
Calm, experienced counselor for life transitions
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed in
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Donna
Dr. Donna Daniel offers support for a wide range of concerns including grief, anxiety, stress, addictions, relationship issues, parenting challenges, and depression. She brings 35 years of counseling experience and a direct, practical style aimed at helping people change patterns that no longer serve them.
Sessions are grounded in real conversation and attention to what is happening in the room. Donna presents herself as fully present and uses intuition alongside clinical knowledge to guide each encounter.
Background and approach
Her approach mixes several techniques rather than following a single school. She often uses client-centered listening to make space for a person's story and narrative ideas to help reframe difficult memories. Mindfulness practices and psychodynamic ideas also appear when they fit a client's needs.
This makes the work flexible and tailored to the person in front of her. Donna earned the LPCC credential - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - and practices from New Mexico. Her long career includes work in many settings and abroad, giving her experience with varied life circumstances and cultural contexts.
She values a spiritual perspective while avoiding rigid doctrine, and is open to talking about faith when it matters to a client. She favors brief focused work but will also engage in longer cycles when that matches a client's goals. Sessions can include practical coaching, grief work, or longer exploration of life patterns.
Donna asks that people come with readiness to change so the therapeutic relationship can be productive. Her tone is straightforward and compassionate. She aims to help people take one small, manageable step toward better functioning and greater well-being.
How Donna’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience without judgement. In online sessions this means the therapist prioritizes the client’s perspective and follows their pace to clarify goals and needs. Jungian and narrative ideas look at the stories people tell about their lives and the symbols that matter to them. These approaches help when someone wants to reframe painful memories or explore deeper patterns that affect mood and relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and try different methods to see what helps most. That decision is collaborative and adjusts as goals change over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video and phone sessions let a person talk in real time, while chat and messaging can suit brief check-ins or journaling between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to maintain steady contact while working on grief, stress, or long-term patterns.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Narrative Therapy
Looking at the story you have come to tell about yourself, and where it came from. The work is in separating the problem from your identity and finding accounts that fit you better.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
Next step
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