About Donna
Dr. Donna Daniel helps people facing grief, anxiety, depression, stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges like addiction, ADHD, bipolar disorder, caregiving strain, and career changes. She also supports those working through body image, gender dysphoria, HIV/AIDS issues, blended family concerns, and loss from disasters.
Dr. Donna Daniel brings 35 years of counseling experience from work in multiple states and settings, and she lists LPCC as her credential. She favors a straightforward, down-to-earth style in sessions.
Background and approach
She attends closely with observation and intuition, and she blends practical tools with reflective conversation. Clients who prefer spiritual language or an exploration of meaning may find this approach helpful, since spirituality is part of her personal and clinical perspective.
Her practice draws on several therapeutic traditions, including client-centered listening, Jungian ideas about symbols and meaning, and mindfulness techniques to ease stress and reactivity. Narrative and psychodynamic ideas shape how she looks at patterns in a person's life and relationships. She aims for brief, focused work when that fits, but is open to longer cycles of exploration.
Dr. Donna values plain talk and clear commitments. She asks that people be willing to work on changing damaging patterns and relationships when they begin.
Sessions attend to both the practical steps people can take and the deeper themes that keep problems repeating. She lives in New Mexico and has worked with diverse communities, including military and international settings in earlier years. Her background includes grief work and thanatology, trauma-informed care, and a long career helping people navigate life transitions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening with empathy and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps when someone needs acceptance, clearer self-understanding, and practical choices about next steps. Jungian therapy looks at symbols, dreams, and life stories to find meaning and patterns that influence behavior; this can be useful when someone feels stuck or is searching for deeper purpose.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, and then recommend a combination of techniques. That choice is collaborative and can change as needs evolve during online sessions.
Online formats offer flexibility for different rhythms of contact. Video calls let people converse face-to-face for deeper conversations, while phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or wave-by-wave processing between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work and try different ways of connecting to see what helps most.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- 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