About Donna
Donna Naffah is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, anger, and depression. Donna creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what’s most worrying them and begin to feel more steady.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen carefully and follow each person's lead.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used when thinking patterns and behaviors become obstacles to daily life. Donna also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and shift painful emotional patterns that affect relationships. Mindfulness practices are offered to ground clients and reduce reactivity.
Solution-Focused Therapy helps set clear, manageable goals and track small changes that matter. She has worked with people facing a wide range of concerns, including abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, substance issues, and feelings of guilt or shame. Sessions aim to name the immediate problem and plan practical next steps.
Donna keeps language simple and sessions practical. She helps clients break problems into small, doable pieces. The goal is clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and better ways to handle everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on careful listening and following the client's pace. Online sessions let the therapist listen closely and respond to what matters most, which helps people feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into clear steps to change them. In an online format those steps can include homework, thought records, and short skill practices between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try techniques that match the problem, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to identify practical tools that fit the client's life and needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well when visual cues matter, phone can be quicker when bandwidth or camera use is an issue, live chat and texting let clients check in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English