Donna Naffah, LPC

Donna Naffah is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, anger, and depression. Donna aims to make the first step easier for anyone who reaches out for support.

She creates an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and everyday habits are talked through alongside feelings. Sessions are practical and straightforward, with attention on what is happening day to day and how small changes can help. Donna listens carefully and follows each person’s pace.

Her approach blends client-centered work with techniques from cognitive behavioral and emotionally-focused methods. She also uses mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to help people find clearer options and calmer responses. These approaches guide conversations about patterns, reactions, and relationships.

Donna has helped people with a wide range of concerns, including abandonment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication problems, and substance concerns. She also addresses divorce, domestic violence aftermath, guilt, shame, and other sources of emotional pain.

In sessions Donna emphasizes simple, usable strategies. She helps people notice thought patterns, test small behavior changes, and try new ways of relating. The goal is to make progress that fits into everyday life and feels doable over time.

How Donna’s Approaches Work Online

Donna integrates client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people understand and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. Client-centered work means sessions focus on the person’s concerns and priorities, with the therapist listening and responding to what matters most. Cognitive behavioral ideas look at thoughts and everyday habits and try small experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood.

Donna also draws on emotionally-focused ideas to address relationship patterns and how emotions shape behavior. That approach helps people name feelings, see how they affect interactions, and try new ways of responding in relationships. Together these methods aim to be practical and collaborative rather than prescriptive.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Donna will help figure out what fits best based on a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. She works with clients to set clear, achievable steps and adjusts methods as progress is seen.

Specific online session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm the available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also support work on thoughts, habits, stress, and relationship patterns in a way that slots into everyday life.