About Donna
Donna Baynes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with ten years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and relationship struggles in a direct and compassionate way. Donna listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps that fit each person's life.
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and actions and then practices small behavior changes.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing helps people connect therapy to their own goals, and Solution-Focused Therapy supports quick, workable steps when change feels urgent. Donna has worked with clients facing grief, trauma and abuse, anger, career decisions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with blended family issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, and the fallout from separation or infidelity.
Her background includes time in educational settings, which informs how she supports parents and those connected to school systems. In sessions she aims to make concepts easy to use. Expect clear examples, short practical exercises, and steady problem solving rather than medical jargon.
Donna helps people find small changes that add up over weeks and months. People who choose her often want a counselor who balances warmth with concrete strategies. She works with adults in English and provides online formats to fit busy lives.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Approaches that guide online work
Donna commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy when working online. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that worsen anxiety or depression by practicing small exercises and testing new ways of thinking. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on immediate goals and concrete steps, which can be useful when someone wants fast, practical progress rather than long-term exploration.Finding the best approach is a team effort. Donna will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. If something isn’t working, she will adjust the plan so sessions match what the client finds most helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in fits a break. Live chat or messaging is useful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style feedback, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to make therapy fit into everyday routines and busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English