About Donald
Donald Rindfuss is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience. He practices from Pennsylvania and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, and life transitions. He keeps a relaxed, straightforward style and aims to help clients build a values-based life.
Donald uses simple, practical steps in sessions. He often blends acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavior techniques, and mindfulness practices. He also draws on motivational interviewing and narrative work to help people clarify goals and make changes.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a calm, down-to-earth presence. Sessions tend to be conversational and focused on what a person wants to change. Donald mentions life experience alongside professional training as part of how he connects with clients.
His background includes a Master of Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh and long-term work with people facing addiction, homelessness, and veteran readjustment challenges. He also has experience in inpatient drug rehabilitation and spent many years at the Veterans Administration. Donald often incorporates meditation and breathing work influenced by his yoga practice to help with anxiety, trauma, and depression.
He favors tools that can be used between sessions so people feel better able to cope in daily life. He aims to match pace and focus to each person's needs. He offers a flexible schedule with morning, late afternoon, evening, and occasionally later-night appointments by arrangement.
To begin, a short matching process is used to set up an initial session.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that reflect their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that can calm the body and reduce stress during tough moments.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try different techniques, and adjust based on what helps. Together they set priorities and build practical tools to use between sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text options support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These choices give flexibility for morning, afternoon, or evening appointments and help people keep therapy going amid work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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