There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Donna B. Newberne, LCMHCS, is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor, Mental Health Clinic Director, and NC CTP Faculty at the Center for Child and Family Health. She has clinical experience working with traumatized children and families since 2003 and has provided clinical supervision since 2010. Donna provides direct clinical services in an outpatient trauma specialty clinic, and clinical and administrative oversight for a multi-disciplinary team of mental health professionals and interns. She is a Master Trainer for Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS) and a National Trainer for Components for Enhancing Clinician Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT).

Donna has trained hundreds of mental health professions to deliver evidence based treatments in North Carolina and beyond. Her passions include working with adolescents , advancing the art and science of clinical supervision, and inspiring future generations of mental health professionals through teaching and training opportunities. Donna finds her roles as clinician, administrator, trainer, mentor, and advocate highly rewarding. In her time away from work, Donna enjoys reading thought-provoking books, cooking, entertaining her friends, spending time with her husband, children and dog, sunny days by the ocean and glamping by RV.

Areas of Focus:  Clinical Supervision and Consultation; Cultural Sensitivity, Awareness, and Competence; Training and Evidence-Based Practice Dissemination/Implementation, Trauma treatment and evaluation, Workforce Wellness, Coaching BIPOC administrators/professionals