About Donald
Donald "Bo" Hardy uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD challenges, depression, and life transitions. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor and draws on ten years of experience in community and clinical settings. Bo writes plainly and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and useful from the first meeting.
Before independent practice, he worked for eight years at a nonprofit supporting adults and students with disabilities.
Background and approach
There he taught social skills, led group sessions, and worked one-on-one to build workplace readiness. That background shaped a hands-on style that values skill building and real-world solutions. Bo trained in clinical mental health counseling at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and holds degrees in instrumental music education.
His earlier career in education informs how he teaches new habits and practices in therapy. He enjoys music and keeps an active lifestyle, which also influences how he frames wellness goals. In sessions he combines client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches.
He often helps people set small, clear goals for sleep, stress management, and daily routines. He also offers strategies for relationship concerns, anger, grief, and career decisions. Therapy with Bo focuses on clear steps and steady progress.
He works with clients to identify concrete changes they can try between sessions. He encourages questions and keeps explanations simple so people can use what they learn right away.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Bo integrates client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness techniques to guide online sessions. Client-centered therapy starts by listening closely and meeting you where you are, helping people feel heard and shaping goals around what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and support better sleep. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that can lower stress and help with anger, depression, and day-to-day reactivity.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work together. He will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That means you and the therapist check progress and adjust strategies until something feels useful and doable.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video works well for deeper conversations and learning new skills. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing feels easier. These formats help make therapy fit around work, caregiving, or other commitments while focusing on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Arizona
- Languages
- English