- Years in practice
- 18
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Donna
Donna King is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri. She brings 18 years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting concerns. Parents often seek her support for relationship strain, communication problems, and balancing caregiving demands.
Donna uses direct, practical methods in sessions. She listens first and then works with each person to set clear goals. Sessions focus on skills that can be used at home, calming techniques for tense moments, and ways to rebuild trust after conflict.
Background and approach
Her background includes extensive work with trauma, including military-related trauma, and with addiction and intimacy issues. Donna also helps people cope with midlife changes, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She blends several approaches to fit each person’s needs rather than following a single method.
Donna holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential - LPC - in Missouri. She sees people who want realistic tools and steady support. She respects different beliefs and life stories and works with people from varied backgrounds.
In sessions she often uses client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and emotionally-focused strategies to address patterns that cause pain. She pairs practical steps with space to talk about feelings. Parents find this combination useful when parenting strains intersect with relationship or mental health concerns.
What Donna works with
Everything Donna lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Donna helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Donna lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapy approaches work online
Donna often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening, understanding, and building a trusting relationship so people can find their own answers. This approach helps when someone needs space to talk through parenting stress, relationship worries, or life changes.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and coping with stressful events. Emotionally-focused techniques are used to identify and shift patterns in close relationships and to help people express needs more clearly when intimacy or connection feels strained.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Donna collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they bring. She adapts what she does over time as progress is made and needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions suit more in-depth conversations and skills practice, phone sessions work well for check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be useful for quick reflections or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family and work schedules and help people stay consistent with treatment.
Questions people ask about Donna
What concerns does Donna help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, and related concerns such as codependency and communication problems.
What is her general therapy style?
Donna uses a warm, straightforward style that combines listening with practical steps. She helps clients set goals and practices skills they can use outside sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 18 years of experience working in mental health, including substantial work with trauma and military-related trauma.
What credentials and location are listed?
Donna holds the LPC credential, Licensed Professional Counselor, and practices in Missouri.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are offered?
She sees clients by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the process to begin working together?
Start by clicking the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session based on the therapist's availability.
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