LaDonna Barner, LMFT
Mississippi · 6 years in practice
LaDonna Barner is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people navigate stress, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and shifts in mood or motivation.
License and registration
- LMFT, Mississippi
- T0539 · expires September 2027
- NPI
- 1023764495 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 6
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About LaDonna
LaDonna Barner is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people navigate stress, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and shifts in mood or motivation. She aims to make early steps in therapy feel manageable and affirms the courage it takes to begin. LaDonna offers straightforward support for concerns like anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, trauma, and self-esteem struggles.
LaDonna creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about feelings and practical problems.
Background and approach
She draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at emotional patterns that keep people stuck. She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of responding. Her approach is collaborative and goal-focused.
Sessions often involve naming difficult emotions, testing small changes in behavior, and checking what works and what needs adjusting. For relationship or intimacy concerns she integrates tools to improve communication and connection. LaDonna has six years of professional experience and practices in Mississippi as an MS LMFT.
She works with a wide range of life challenges including parenting stress, caregiver strain, body image and eating concerns, ADHD, chronic illness, and issues tied to attachment or abandonment. She offers therapy by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The subscription model is used for sessions and can be canceled at any time.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything LaDonna lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches LaDonna names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapy approaches work online
LaDonna uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice and name core feelings that drive relationship patterns, and to practice new ways of responding to those emotions. She pairs that with client-centered work that follows the person’s own pace and priorities, giving space for what matters most to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thought patterns that keep someone stuck and tests small changes in thinking and behavior to see what helps.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will listen to the client’s concerns and goals, explain different methods, and try approaches collaboratively to find what fits best. Sessions can shift over time as needs change, mixing emotional exploration with skills and practical experiments.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different life demands. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and text-based messaging lets clients share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping the focus on progress and what helps most.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she address?
She helps with relationship and parenting stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma, grief, self-esteem, and related life changes.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and warm, combining emotionally-focused work with client-centered listening and practical cognitive strategies.
What is her clinical background?
She has six years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and relational concerns.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She practices in Mississippi and holds a Master of Science and is a licensed marriage and family therapist, MS LMFT.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment and getting started work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.
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