About Donna
Donna Cummings is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of experience in mental health. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction issues, and challenges with self-esteem and life transitions. She also supports concerns related to parenting, relationships, grief, trauma, sleep, anger, ADHD, and career strain.
Donna uses clear, practical methods in sessions. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice patterns and try different actions.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered and mindfulness approaches, and motivational interviewing when people want to change habits like substance use. Her background includes long experience in community mental health and work with people facing addiction and related challenges. She also offers life coaching for those who prefer goal-focused conversations about skills and routines rather than ongoing therapy.
Donna emphasizes respect for diversity and cultural awareness in her work. Sessions focus on small, usable steps toward goals. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, skill practice, and options to try different strategies.
The pace is collaborative and guided by each person’s needs and preferences. Donna holds licenses in both South Carolina and North Carolina as noted: SC LPC and NC LCMHC. She offers services in English and accepts international clients.
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging, and typically use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How Donna’s Approaches Work Online
Donna commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, grief, and making life changes.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thought patterns and test different ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is often useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and managing stress. Client-centered techniques create a supportive space where the person sets priorities and the therapist follows their lead.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Donna will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then suggest methods to try. The work can mix approaches and adjust over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow more interactive skill practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a simpler check-in is needed, and text or chat formats can suit short reflections, goal check-ins, or ongoing coaching between longer meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English