- Strengths-focused care
- CBT skills
- Support for self-esteem
About Trina
Trina McDonald is a licensed counselor who centers sessions on the person in front of her. She combines client-centered listening with practical CBT tools to help people build confidence, manage stress, and improve relationships. Trina brings ten years of counseling experience to her work and integrates her spiritual worldview when clients request that perspective.
Her approach is straightforward. She focuses on strengths already present and helps clients set small, manageable goals. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Motivational Interviewing supports change when someone feels stuck or unsure how to move forward.
Trina has worked in a variety of settings, including independent practice, and with people affected by substance use and chronic health stressors. That background informs a practical style that balances emotional support with hands-on skills. She often helps people cope with grief, addiction, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles.
Sessions can also address relationship and communication problems, caregiver stress, guilt and shame, and issues around intimacy. Trina weaves narrative therapy ideas into work on personal stories and forgiveness. When faith matters to a client, she can include spiritual resources and values as part of therapy.
Her office is in North Carolina and she practices as LPC and LCPC. Sessions are conducted in English and she is open to working with people beyond the United States. To begin, clients use the continue button on this profile and complete a short matching questionnaire.
Her approach is straightforward. She focuses on strengths already present and helps clients set small, manageable goals. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Motivational Interviewing supports change when someone feels stuck or unsure how to move forward.
Trina has worked in a variety of settings, including independent practice, and with people affected by substance use and chronic health stressors. That background informs a practical style that balances emotional support with hands-on skills. She often helps people cope with grief, addiction, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles.
Sessions can also address relationship and communication problems, caregiver stress, guilt and shame, and issues around intimacy. Trina weaves narrative therapy ideas into work on personal stories and forgiveness. When faith matters to a client, she can include spiritual resources and values as part of therapy.
Her office is in North Carolina and she practices as LPC and LCPC. Sessions are conducted in English and she is open to working with people beyond the United States. To begin, clients use the continue button on this profile and complete a short matching questionnaire.