About Donna
Donna Khan is a licensed master social worker with more than three decades of practice experience. She uses practical, down-to-earth methods to help people manage stress and anxiety. Donna is based in Michigan and works with adults by phone, video, chat, or messaging.
She begins by listening and learning what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on clear goals and simple strategies that can be used day to day.
Background and approach
Donna draws on client-centered care to make room for each person’s priorities and pace. Her work also includes cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and build different habits. Dialectical behavior skills are added when people need tools for strong emotions or relationship strain.
Attachment-informed ideas help when past losses or relationship patterns keep repeating. Donna has experience in hospital-based medical social work and outpatient clinic settings. Over the years she has guided people through depression, addiction concerns, grief, family conflict, career changes, and coping with major life transitions.
She emphasizes practical skill building and steady problem-solving. People choose her for straightforward support, clear coping tools, and an approach that respects their pace. She encourages a collaborative working relationship so clients feel involved in planning each step forward.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Donna uses client-centered therapy to create space for each person to say what matters most. This method focuses on listening, reflecting, and shaping goals with the client so sessions stay relevant and practical.She also brings cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and many everyday stressors. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are offered when people need emotion regulation, distress tolerance, or better interpersonal communication.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss needs, goals, and preferences and try methods that fit the person’s situation. Together they adjust techniques over time until a useful mix emerges.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat is good for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work when schedules or travel change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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