Donna Young
Supportive counseling that focuses on practical change
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Donna
Donna Young is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with 25 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship strain, parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, and related life changes. Donna speaks plainly with parents and caregivers to identify immediate priorities and small steps that can ease daily pressure.
Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at making change feel doable rather than overwhelming. Donna trained in psychology at the University of Virginia and completed graduate studies in counseling psychology at Bowie State University.
Background and approach
She has worked in local and federal agencies, schools, and health care systems since 1995. That range of settings gave her experience with workplace issues, caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and responses to natural and human-caused disasters. In sessions she blends techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and solution-focused work.
She draws on mindfulness practices too when they help clients calm racing thoughts. The focus is on concrete skills, clearer thinking, and short-term strategies that fit everyday life. Donna aims to help people find workable solutions and new perspective.
She helps clients build coping tools for anger, low self-esteem, social anxiety, and midlife questions. Her style is steady, practical, and goal-oriented, with attention to each person’s values and strengths. People looking for help with career stress, family concerns, or lasting mood problems can expect straightforward collaboration.
Donna’s work centers on getting results that make daily life easier and more manageable.
Online approaches that fit busy family life
Donna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and patterns that keep problems going. Dialectical Behavior Therapy brings skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships through emotion regulation and distress tolerance techniques.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Donna will talk with each person about goals, daily routines, and what feels doable. Together the therapist and client choose which methods and skills to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into family schedules. These options let people check in between busy days, review skills when they need them, and keep momentum without long commutes. The focus is on making therapy accessible and practical so clients can use what they learn at home and at work.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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