About Donna
Donna Alexander is a licensed marriage and family therapist who brings 22 years of experience to her counseling work. She focuses on practical help for relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, and everyday stress.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more capable. Donna often helps clients facing anxiety, depression, eating or anger issues, and those wrestling with self-esteem or career decisions.
She also supports people working through communication problems, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose. She has experience with concerns specific to veterans and armed forces issues.
Her approach blends techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, and Solution-Focused Therapy. Sessions typically look at what isn’t working, try small changes, and build new ways of relating and coping.
The emphasis is on clear goals and usable tools that fit daily life. Donna aims to create a respectful, values-aware environment.
She listens for what matters most to each person and tailors her methods to those priorities. Many clients work on communication skills, grief processing, and rebuilding routines that support better mood and relationships.
Based in Tennessee, she works with adults who want practical strategies and steady support through life transitions. Her background combines decades of clinical experience with a focus on helping people make concrete changes that improve relationships and wellbeing.
Therapeutic approaches available through online sessions
Donna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and problems that respond to changing routines or thinking patterns.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people name and respond to their emotions in ways that improve connection. EFT can be helpful for people who want to strengthen how they relate to others and manage strong feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Donna will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then choose or combine methods that fit. This is a collaborative process aimed at practical steps that match what the person hopes to change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation; phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or for people who prefer written interaction. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work into a busy life and to continue progress even when in-person visits are not practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English