About Donna
Donna Kaufman is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. She draws on 14 years of professional experience to provide steady support for people facing life changes, addictions, parenting challenges, or concerns about eating and body image. Donna aims to make sessions feel open and nonjudgmental.
She uses simple, practical tools to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what feels most important to the client and on small steps that can make life easier. Her approach blends several evidence-based methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thoughts and behaviors that get in the way.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages people to clarify values and act in ways that matter to them. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and narrative techniques add skills for managing intense emotions and for reworking the stories people tell about themselves. Donna also pays attention to background issues like family of origin, multicultural concerns, and caregiver stress.
She supports people dealing with isolation, jealousy, money worries, personality challenges, and post-traumatic stress. Sessions aim to balance practical skills with listening and validation. People meet with her by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She helps clients set realistic goals and chooses methods based on each person’s needs. Taking the first step can feel hard, and Donna focuses on steady guidance through that process.
How online methods and therapy approaches work together
Donna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often involves practical exercises and small behavior experiments that can be done between sessions to reduce anxiety or improve mood.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy which focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking committed steps toward those values. ACT can help people live with difficult feelings while moving toward goals that feel meaningful.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Donna will work with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals and preferences. That can mean combining techniques from different approaches and adjusting over time as needs change.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection, or support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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