About Donna
Donna Iverson is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with over three decades of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, handle grief and loss, and navigate parenting and family challenges. Donna emphasizes each person’s strengths and respects their experience as the central guide in therapy.
She approaches sessions as practical conversations. Clients can expect a calm listener who asks questions, reflects what she hears, and helps sort options.
Background and approach
Donna sees therapy as a partnership where small shifts build better routines and clearer decisions. Her work includes support around adoption and foster care, veteran and first responder issues, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and coping with disasters. Donna also helps people working through personality disorder challenges and those seeking coaching for self-esteem and life goals.
Donna uses a range of methods such as client-centered conversation, cognitive-behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. She picks techniques that fit what a person says they want to change, then adjusts as progress unfolds. She has long experience offering services online and finds that video, phone, chat, or text can make it easier to keep therapy part of a busy life.
Taking the first step can feel daunting, and Donna’s aim is to support people through that early work and beyond.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy is a conversational way of working that focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths. It helps when someone needs a flexible, supportive space to make sense of feelings and decide next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It can be useful for reducing anxiety, managing stress, and building new habits through short, actionable tasks.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help reduce reactivity and increase calm. These practices pair well with other work when someone wants tools to manage intense emotions.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Donna will listen to your concerns, discuss options, and try methods that match your goals and preferences. She adjusts strategies as you both see what helps.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls work well for longer conversations and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat supports brief check-ins or reflection between meetings. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress going over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Coaching
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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