About Donna
Donna Curran is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of practice. She focuses on helping people reduce anxiety, manage stress, and improve relationships. Her style aims to make everyday life feel more manageable and hopeful.
Donna draws on a mix of cognitive and solution-focused ideas to tailor sessions to each person. She asks about what matters most, sets clear goals, and checks progress along the way. Conversations are practical and targeted to produce changes that fit a person’s life.
Background and approach
She has worked with concerns such as depression, addiction, trauma and grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Donna also supports people navigating parenting challenges, career shifts, bipolar mood concerns, and ADHD-related struggles. Her background includes helping people with eating and sleeping problems and with anger and coping through life changes.
Donna earned a Master of Social Work from Temple University and a Master of Health Administration from Pennsylvania State University. She is licensed as an LCSW in Florida and Virginia, and brings experience from clinical and family settings over many years. In sessions she aims for a respectful, nonjudgmental tone.
The work is collaborative - she helps people identify practical steps they can use between meetings. Many clients find the focus on concrete tools helps them notice steady improvement.
Practical approaches and flexible online care
Donna uses cognitive approaches that help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try alternative, more balanced thoughts to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method is useful for day-to-day worries, anxiety symptoms, and depressive thinking because it targets specific thoughts that influence feelings and behavior.She also uses solution-focused techniques that build on what is already working in a person's life. Those techniques emphasize short-term goals, small experiments, and steps that can change routines, relationships, or coping strategies without long delays.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick approaches that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they want to address. That shared decision-making helps make the plan feel realistic and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, quick problem-solving, or ongoing encouragement between longer meetings. These options aim to make therapy fit into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical change and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English
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