Donna Byxbe, LCSW

Donna Byxbe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Texas with 29 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, parenting and family concerns, and mood issues including bipolar and panic symptoms.

Donna draws on several practical approaches to help people manage day-to-day challenges. She uses client-centered ways to listen and clarify what matters to the person. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build concrete coping skills. EMDR and mindfulness practices are used when trauma or strong emotional reactions are part of the picture.

Much of her background is in community mental health programs and private practice. That history includes work with adults, children, adolescents, older adults, couples and groups. Her long experience gives a practical sense of what helps across different problems and life stages.

In sessions she combines talking therapies with tools such as meditation, hypnotherapy elements, and inner child work when those fit a person’s goals. Treatment plans are shaped by the concerns the client brings and by clear goals agreed on together.

She describes her work with couples as helping partners heal both independently and together, using communication skills, compromise and negotiation. Clients keep the right to accept or refuse any suggested intervention as part of collaborative decision making.

How her approaches work in online sessions