About Donya
Donya Franklin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, phobias, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and works to create a calm, respectful space where clients can talk about hard things and try new ways of coping. Donya aims to help people find clearer steps forward when life feels stuck.
She brings 16 years of experience across community mental health, residential programs, and outpatient settings.
Background and approach
That background means she is familiar with addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, mood concerns, and relationship struggles. Donya also supports people facing issues such as parenting stress, career change, ADHD, intimacy concerns, and eating struggles. In sessions she blends several practical methods to match each person’s goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Client-centered work helps people set the pace and focus on what matters most to them. Motivational Interviewing and solution-focused ideas are used to build momentum and small achievable steps.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Donya helps clients set simple goals, practice new skills, and track progress between sessions. She emphasizes trust and partnership and invites clients to shape the work so it fits their life.
Donya practices in Georgia and works in English. She has a track record of working with individuals on a wide range of concerns, from family-of-origin issues and attachment difficulties to commitment and communication problems.
How Donya's Methods Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the person's lead, helping them name priorities and choose what to work on. This approach supports people who want a collaborative, paced process for dealing with anxiety, relationship concerns, or low self-esteem.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches simple ways to notice thoughts and behaviors, test them, and try alternatives. It is often used for anxiety, phobias, depression, and stress by breaking problems into small, manageable steps.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change by clarifying values and strengthening motivation for the next steps. It pairs well with solution-focused ideas that target practical short-term goals.
Choosing an approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will decide together which methods fit best based on goals, comfort, and what has helped in the past. Donya adjusts techniques over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging works for quick reflections, ongoing coaching, or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to stick with small, consistent steps toward change.
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What this therapist 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
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