Donna Jeane Pappas, LCMHC

Donna Jeane Pappas brings more than three decades of experience to her counseling work, guiding people through transitions and times of loss with a practical, forward-focused approach. She frames her practice around helping individuals consider what matters most to them and then building goals, strengths, and steps that support meaningful change and clearer direction.

Pappas is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - LCMHC - in North Carolina, and her clinical background includes extensive support for people coping with major health concerns, life-threatening illness, significant loss, and other intense life events. She also has long experience helping clients navigate developmental and life-stage transitions such as career and education changes, relationship shifts, parenting and adult-child dynamics, caregiving for aging parents, retirement, and redefining identity in new chapters of life.

While grounded in clinical training and evidence-based practices, Pappas often works in a coaching-oriented style rather than traditional psychotherapy. That style is collaborative, goal-directed, and practical, emphasizing what matters most in the present. She draws on positive psychology and techniques from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients cultivate resilience, intentional living, and greater day-to-day satisfaction.

Individuals who tend to connect well with her work are those seeking clarity, alignment, and purposeful action during periods of change or grief, or those who want support in designing a life that reflects their values. Her emphasis is on respectful, nonjudgmental partnership that helps motivated people move toward authentic, sustainable change.