About Donna
Donna Thompson-Lisiecki is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia with 20 years of experience supporting people through difficult life challenges. She frames therapy as collaborative work and asks for honesty and effort from clients. Donna keeps a direct, encouraging style and expects clients to be engaged in the change process.
She focuses on problems like stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and grief. She also helps with relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, career questions, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with first responder and veteran issues and trauma and post-traumatic stress. Donna uses approaches that center the person’s experience and explore meaning. She draws on client-centered methods to listen and build trust.
She also uses emotionally-focused and existential ideas to address attachment, feelings, and life purpose. Sessions tend to be straightforward and practical. Donna encourages people to set concrete goals and practice skills between meetings.
She emphasizes motivation, accountability, and small steps toward change. Outside the office she values family time, gardening, art, music, and travel. Those interests inform a down-to-earth approach that blends realistic expectations with compassion.
She invites people who are ready to work toward measurable change to begin the process and hopes to support steady progress along the way.
How these approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what matters to the person. Online sessions let a therapist show empathy and follow the client’s lead while discussing stress, relationship concerns, or self-esteem issues.Emotionally-focused ideas help identify attachment patterns and strong feelings that affect how people relate. In a virtual session this often looks like naming emotions, tracking interaction styles, and practicing new ways of responding to reduce conflict and build connection.
Existential therapy examines meaning, choices, and life purpose. That approach can help when someone faces midlife questions, career change, or grief by encouraging honest reflection and decisions that match personal values.
Donna will work with each person to find the best fit among these approaches. She treats choosing an approach as a team effort - checking in about what helps, adjusting methods, and setting clear goals together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video offers face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can support quick check-ins and brief coaching, and messaging is useful for ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English