Meet Donna Murray | EMDR Therapist in Beckley, WV

If you are reading this, something in your life feels heavier than it should. Maybe you carry a memory that will not settle. Maybe you feel disconnected from the people you love, or you notice old patterns showing up again no matter how hard you try to outrun them. You do not have to keep carrying it alone.

Donna Murray is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Supervisor (LPCC-S) with nearly 30 years of clinical experience, based in Beckley, West Virginia. She works with women, veterans, couples, and individuals navigating grief, using EMDR therapy to help clients process what talk alone has not been able to reach. Donna sees clients in person at her Beckley office and virtually across West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida.

Who Donna Murray Is

Donna built her practice on a simple belief: healing happens when a person feels safe enough to be fully seen. Nearly three decades in the field taught her that pain does not always respond to conversation alone. Sometimes the body holds what the mind cannot put into words. That is why Donna trained in EMDR, a therapy method designed to help the brain and body process painful experiences so they stop running the show in the background of daily life.

Clients describe Donna's approach as steady and unhurried. She meets people where they are, without judgment, and moves at a pace that feels manageable. Her goal is never to make you relive your pain in detail. It is to help you move through it.

Therapy for Women

Many of the women who come to Donna carry more than they let on. Trauma, strained relationships, or a major life transition can leave you feeling like a version of yourself has gone missing. You might be functioning on the outside while quietly struggling underneath.

Donna helps women reconnect with themselves through EMDR, working through the experiences that shaped how you see yourself and how you relate to others. This is not about assigning blame or dwelling on the past. It is about clearing the weight so you can move forward with more clarity and confidence.

Start Now. Call, text, or fill out Donna's contact form to schedule your first session.

Therapy for Veterans

Military service changes a person. The training, the deployments, the loss, and the return to civilian life all leave a mark that most people around you cannot fully understand. You may feel on edge in situations that should feel safe, or distant from people who love you and want to help.

Donna works with veterans using EMDR to process combat experience, PTSD, and the difficult transition back to civilian life. This work does not require you to narrate every detail of what happened. EMDR allows your brain to process those experiences in a way that reduces their grip, so the past stops interrupting your present.

Start Now. Donna offers a confidential space built specifically for the realities veterans carry.

Couples and Marriage Counseling

Every relationship goes through seasons of disconnection. Maybe communication has broken down. Maybe trust was damaged, or you and your partner feel like you are living parallel lives instead of a shared one. You love each other, but something is missing.

Donna helps couples identify the patterns that keep them stuck and works with each partner individually and together to address the deeper wounds driving conflict. EMDR can be a powerful tool here, especially when past trauma is shaping how one or both partners show up in the relationship today.

Start Now. Reach out to begin rebuilding the connection you are looking for.

Grief Counseling

Grief does not follow a schedule, and it rarely looks the way people expect. You might feel fine one day and unable to get out of bed the next. Loss can bring up more than sadness. It can bring guilt, anger, and a sense that life no longer makes sense.

Donna walks alongside clients through the grieving process, offering a space where there is no timeline and no pressure to "move on" before you are ready. EMDR can also help when grief is tangled with trauma, such as a sudden or traumatic loss that your mind keeps replaying.

Start Now. You do not have to carry this loss without support.

What EMDR Can Help You Heal

EMDR is often associated with trauma, but its reach goes far beyond a single diagnosis. Donna uses EMDR to address a wide range of experiences that keep people feeling stuck.

Trauma and PTSD. Trauma does not just live in your thoughts. It lives in your body, showing up as tension, hypervigilance, or a nervous system that will not settle. EMDR works with the body, not just the story, so healing does not depend on retelling painful memories in detail.

Anxiety. If you have tried talk therapy and still feel like anxiety runs your life, EMDR goes further than conversation. Instead of managing symptoms, it works at the root of where the anxiety began, helping your body finally release what it has been holding onto.

Panic and overwhelm. Sudden waves of panic often trace back to unprocessed experiences. EMDR helps calm the nervous system's alarm response so panic no longer arrives without warning.

Childhood wounds. The experiences that shaped you early in life do not stay in the past. They influence how you see yourself and how you show up in relationships today. EMDR helps you process those formative experiences with compassion.

Shame and low self-worth. If a critical inner voice follows you everywhere, EMDR can help trace that voice back to its origin and loosen its hold on how you see yourself.

Relationship patterns. When the same conflicts or disconnections keep repeating, it is often because unresolved experiences are shaping how you relate to others. EMDR helps break that cycle.

Life transitions. Even positive changes, like a new job, a move, or a new chapter of life, can stir up old fears and uncertainty. Donna helps clients move through transition with more steadiness and less anxiety.

Online Therapy Across Five States

Distance should never stand between you and the support you need. Donna offers virtual EMDR sessions to clients across West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida, in addition to in-person sessions at her Beckley office. Virtual therapy with Donna is just as personal and effective as sitting across from her in the room. All you need is a private space and a stable connection.

Start Now. Wherever you are in WV, OH, NC, SC, or FL, virtual sessions with Donna are available to you.

Ready to Begin?

Whatever brought you here today, you do not have to keep navigating it alone. Donna Murray offers a warm, judgment-free space for women, veterans, couples, and anyone grieving a loss, whether you meet in person in Beckley, WV, or virtually from WV, OH, NC, SC, or FL.

Start Now. Call, text, or fill out the contact form to schedule your first appointment with Donna.