Trina McDonald, LPC, LCPC
Narrative-informed counselor focused on strengths
Details
| Name | Trina McDonald |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LPC, LCPC |
| Based in | North Carolina |
| Licensed in | North Carolina, New Jersey, Alaska, Washington, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 10 |
About Trina
Trina McDonald is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with ten years of experience. She brings a calm, strength-focused style to sessions and centers the person's story in therapy. Trina draws from Narrative Therapy while also using client-centered and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people find practical ways forward.
Clients often come with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or struggles with addiction. She also addresses relationship concerns, family problems, intimacy-related issues, anger, bipolar mood concerns, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include caregiver stress, communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, self-love, women's issues, and HIV/AIDS-related concerns. In sessions she listens for what matters most in someone's story. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns and consider new meanings.
She blends practical skills from cognitive behavioral work with open questions that invite change in how someone sees themselves. Trina integrates spiritual values when clients wish to include them, using faith-based ideas like hope and love to boost confidence and recovery goals. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
She offers appointments from North Carolina and works with international clients in English. Over phone, video, live chat, or text, she helps people build steady steps toward better emotional balance and clearer choices.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Grief among the things Trina works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Trina among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Trina among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Trina among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Trina directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Trina directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
Narrative and skills-based work available online
Trina uses Narrative Therapy to help people reframe difficult life stories and find new meaning. This approach focuses on the narratives people carry and looks for alternative plots and strengths that have been overlooked. It can be useful for grief, identity struggles, guilt, shame, and relationship patterns.She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the person's experience and priorities. That style emphasizes listening, acceptance, and helping people make their own choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to teach practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and unhelpful thinking patterns through steps and exercises.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they can try different techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can fit into a busy day, live chat offers a quick check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people access support around work schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or travel.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addictions. She also helps with relationship and family problems, intimacy-related issues, anger, bipolar concerns, and life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her work centers on the client's story using Narrative Therapy alongside client-centered and cognitive behavioral ideas. Sessions combine listening, reflective questions, and practical skill building.
What is her professional background?
She has ten years of experience working in a range of settings, including independent practice and work with people facing substance use and mental health challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LPC and LCPC credentials and practices from North Carolina.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps do I take to begin therapy?
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