Donna Avant, LICSW

Donna Avant provides compassionate, experienced support to adults navigating grief, relationship challenges, anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. She creates a calm, respectful space where individuals can explore difficult thoughts and emotions, build self-confidence, and develop practical coping skills to move toward greater resilience and well-being.

Drawing on a solution-focused orientation, Donna helps clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns, practice healthier coping strategies, and consider values and faith as sources of meaning when appropriate. Her work emphasizes awareness, problem solving, and realistic steps that fit each person’s unique circumstances and goals.

Donna is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), which denotes advanced clinical training and licensure to provide psychotherapy. She brings 32 years of experience in the mental health field supporting people through grief and loss, abrupt or long-term life changes, stress and anxiety, trauma, and depression. She also offers assistance with relationship and family concerns, parenting, career decisions, and caregiver or compassion fatigue issues.

Available for sessions that accommodate varied schedules and needs, Donna welcomes individuals who are ready to explore their life story and work toward healthier, more satisfying ways of living. She invites those interested to schedule a session to begin that process.

Client-Centered and CBT Approaches for Online Care

Donna Avant integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) into her online practice to address stress, anxiety, grief, relationship concerns, and life transitions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy, active listening, and collaboration so the individual feels heard and supported while exploring personal goals and values. This approach helps people build self-understanding and confidence to make meaningful changes.

Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Through practical exercises and skill building, CBT can help reduce distress, improve coping with anxiety or depression, and support healthier patterns in relationships and daily life.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Donna will work with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and together they will determine which methods or combination of methods fit best. This collaborative stance helps tailor care to what feels most effective for the individual.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, manage caregiver responsibilities, or connect from different locations. These options expand accessibility and help people maintain continuity of care while working toward their goals with a licensed professional.