About Donna
Donna Naffah, LPC, uses a client-centered style to help people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and relationship struggles. She aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful for each person who reaches out. She focuses on building an open space where people can talk about what worries them.
Sessions emphasize listening first, then working together to choose practical steps that fit daily life. That might mean short exercises to calm anxiety or practicing new ways to talk in a relationship.
Background and approach
With 17 years of experience she has supported people facing depression, parenting strain, and complicated emotions like guilt or shame. Her work also covers issues such as abandonment, body image concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and problems with control or dependency. Donna often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and shift behavior.
She blends that with emotionally focused methods to help people understand and express feelings, and mindfulness practices to build steady attention during stressful moments. Sessions may be structured around goals or adapt as needs change, using solution-focused ideas to create small, achievable steps. She meets people where they are and adjusts pace to what each person can handle.
If you are worried about starting, the first meeting is an opportunity to see if the approach feels like a fit.
How online approaches blend with practical care
Donna often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce stress and anxiety. CBT works well for issues like worry, anger patterns, and some depression symptoms, because it focuses on clear steps and experiments.She also uses emotionally-focused therapy to help people identify and express core feelings that underlie relationship and communication problems. EFT supports clearer emotional expression and helps people practice new ways of connecting or responding during tense moments.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try an approach, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process aims to make therapy feel practical and relevant rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short, ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue work from different locations.
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What this therapist 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
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