Donna Alexander
Relationship-focused therapist using clear, practical methods
LMFT Tennessee
- Experience
- 22 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Family, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Languages
- English
About Donna
Donna Alexander is an LMFT with 22 years of clinical experience helping people navigate relationship and life transitions. She integrates cognitive behavioral techniques with emotionally-focused work and practical, solution-oriented strategies to address problems such as anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
Her style emphasizes clear skills, emotional processing, and collaborative problem solving to help clients make meaningful changes. Based in Tennessee, Donna centers treatment on relationship dynamics and communication concerns while also addressing career questions, self-esteem, anger, eating issues, and stress.
She brings particular attention to family systems and offers focused support for veterans and armed forces issues. Her work balances compassion with concrete interventions aimed at improving coping, resolving conflict, and clarifying life purpose.
Clients who work with Donna can expect a therapist who draws on evidence-informed approaches to tailor care to individual goals. She aims to cultivate better interpersonal skills and emotional understanding while helping people move forward after losses or major life changes.
Her practice combines practical coaching elements with clinical therapy to support sustained progress.
Evidence-Based Therapies Delivered Online
Donna incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in sessions to help clients identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, which can support progress with anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to explore and reorganize emotional responses within relationships, which is useful when communication and attachment issues are central concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to evaluate goals, preferences, and the nature of the presenting concerns and then tailor techniques from these approaches to fit the situation. This means clients and the therapist decide together whether more skills-based CBT work, emotionally-focused EFT, or a blend of methods will best serve the therapeutic goals.
Online therapy offers flexible access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to schedule around work and family commitments. These formats support ongoing contact and follow-up between sessions and allow someone to pursue consistent progress without commuting to appointments.
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Experience
22+ years
Licensed
Tennessee
Languages
English