Donna Holden
Compassionate, practical therapy for stress and relationships
LMFT Oklahoma
- Experience
- 13 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Donna
Donna Holden is an LMFT who centers her work on practical, collaborative therapy that helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
With 13 years of clinical experience in Oklahoma, she blends cognitive behavioral techniques with client-centered and emotionally-focused approaches to create individualized plans that address present-day difficulties and improve everyday functioning. She has a history of helping families, parents, and couples strengthen communication, navigate conflict, and build healthier patterns.
Her work also covers caregiver stress, control issues, life purpose questions, social anxiety and phobia, and other interpersonal challenges. Donna emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every interaction and adapts dialogue and interventions to reflect each client’s unique needs.
Clients can expect a practitioner who values collaboration and clear coping strategies while attending to emotions and relational dynamics. She encourages people to recognize the courage it takes to begin therapy and supports them through the early steps of change and problem solving.
How evidence-informed approaches translate to online care
Donna draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teach concrete coping skills for anxiety, stress, and depression. CBT’s structured tools can help clients learn techniques they can use between sessions to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
She also employs Client-Centered Therapy, creating a supportive, nonjudgmental atmosphere that helps clients explore feelings and values at their own pace. This approach focuses on empathy and collaboration, which supports work on relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and life purpose questions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process, and Donna works collaboratively to tailor methods to each person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Together the therapist and client will evaluate which techniques feel most helpful and adjust the plan over time to match progress and changing priorities.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing clients to fit therapy into busy schedules and access support from home or other convenient locations. These options can make attending regular sessions easier for people balancing family, work, and caregiving responsibilities, while still allowing for focused therapeutic work and skill building.
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Experience
13+ years
Licensed
Oklahoma
Languages
English