About Donya
Donya Franklin greets people with a straightforward purpose: to help them find hope and change. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 16 years of experience. Donya aims to help people heal, grow, and become the version of themselves they want to be.
She focuses on everyday problems that pile up and feel overwhelming. That includes stress, anxiety, depression, substance issues, grief, and relationship strain. Donya also supports people dealing with intimacy concerns, parenting stress, eating issues, ADHD, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in independent practice, community mental health, residential programs, outpatient clinics, and a domestic violence facility. Those settings shaped a practical way of working that centers on what helps each person now. Donya has worked with adolescents and adults across a wide range of life challenges.
In sessions she draws on approaches that match the person’s needs. She mixes direct skills practice with time to reflect on feelings and patterns. The work often looks like setting small goals, trying new behaviors, and checking what helps.
Donya describes therapy as a partnership built on trust and collaboration. She helps people set clear goals and tries methods that fit their situation and pace. The focus is on real change that fits everyday life.
Approaches adapted for online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and supported. It helps when someone needs space to talk through emotions and make sense of their relationships and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and for building new habits through small, doable steps.
The Gottman Method brings specific tools for improving communication and resolving recurring relationship problems. It can help people who want clearer conversations and better conflict patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Donya works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and comfort. She will explain options and try approaches together, adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when that helps. Phone sessions can fit a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are available for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or when writing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around school, work, or caregiving.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English