Donna Marchington , LCPC

Donna Marchington is a licensed clinician in Montana with 24 years of professional experience. She practices as an LCPC (Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor), offering care for people coping with stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. With extensive experience across these areas, she helps clients navigate difficult emotions and life transitions while honoring each person’s unique story.

Donna emphasizes a collaborative, nonjudgmental approach that invites honest sharing of thoughts and feelings. She works alongside clients to create an open atmosphere where concerns about abandonment, codependency, communication problems, family and blended family issues, and other relational struggles can be explored. Her work also addresses concerns such as guilt and shame, forgiveness, first responder issues, and the impacts of divorce or domestic violence.

Recognizing that taking the first step toward a more fulfilling life requires courage, Donna offers steady support through the process of change. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to help people identify patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to distress and to develop practical skills for coping and growth. Her focus is on practical, compassionate care aimed at helping clients move toward their goals.

Applying Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Online Care

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - focuses on identifying unhelpful patterns of thought and behavior and replacing them with more effective strategies. In practice this means clients learn to recognize automatic thoughts that contribute to anxiety or depression and to test and reframe those thoughts while building concrete coping skills.

CBT also includes behavioral techniques that help clients increase activities that bring a sense of accomplishment or connection, and that reduce avoidance patterns that maintain distress. These methods are often used to address relationship difficulties, grief, trauma-related symptoms, and everyday stressors by teaching practical strategies that can be applied between sessions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Donna works with each person to determine which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made. Clients and therapist decide together on the focus and pace of treatment.

Online therapy offers flexibility to access care by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life or to engage from different locations. These options support consistent work on goals and allow licensed professionals to guide skills practice and problem solving in ways that suit each client’s routine and comfort.