Dr. Donna Winsor, LPC, LMHC

Dr. Donna Winsor welcomes people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, anger, ADHD, and life transitions. She focuses on helping people rebuild confidence and handle everyday challenges. Donna aims to create a calm space where people feel heard and respected from the first session.

She listens closely to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions emphasize practical skills that can be used between meetings. Donna uses straightforward tools to help people manage symptoms, change unhelpful thinking, and handle stress in daily life.

With 20 years in practice, Donna brings a broad background working with concerns such as caregiving stress, adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric topics, attachment and communication problems, and end-of-life counseling. Her experience also covers career worries, financial stress, codependency, and forgiveness work.

Her clinical approach includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness exercises, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. These methods are chosen to match a person’s goals and needs rather than as fixed prescriptions.

Donna holds credentials as an LPC and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She offers services from Arizona and works with English-speaking clients, including those located internationally. People connect with her through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How Donna Uses CBT and Mindfulness Online

Donna often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. CBT sessions focus on simple steps: identify a worry, test the thought, and try a different action to see what changes. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, worry, and many everyday stressors.

She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach present-moment awareness and stress reduction skills. Mindfulness work includes short breathing practices and simple attention exercises that reduce reactivity and help with emotional regulation.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that seem likely to help, and adjust the plan based on what works best for the person. Clients are invited to give feedback and shape their care.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video is helpful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, short live chat or text messages are useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing touchpoints between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while maintaining continuity of care.