About Donna
Donna Marchant-Roof is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia with thirty years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, and life changes. Donna combines practical tools with steady support to help people facing difficult transitions.
Donna earned a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Mercy College and a Master of Social Work from Norfolk State University. She has been licensed since 1995 and has worked across age groups.
Background and approach
In recent years she has focused on older adults, changing medical needs, grief, and life transitions. Her style is straightforward and person-centered. She celebrates small wins and helps people set realistic goals.
Sessions often include mindfulness exercises, practical problem-solving, and steps to reduce anxious thoughts. Donna also brings experience coaching healthcare leaders and professionals moving into leadership roles. That background informs how she helps with workplace stress, career decisions, and later-career transitions.
She listens for strengths and builds on them. People who work with Donna can expect a collaborative plan tailored to their situation. She starts where each person is and selects approaches that match their goals.
Over time the focus is on measurable progress and skills that make everyday life easier.
Practical approaches adapted for online care
Donna often uses Client-Centered Therapy to help people feel heard and to build on their strengths. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting what matters to you, and helping you set goals that fit your life.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT provides concrete steps to reduce anxious thinking and to try new behaviors that can ease stress and improve mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Donna will discuss your goals, preferences, and day-to-day demands to choose methods that make sense. She approaches treatment as a collaborative process and adjusts the plan as you make progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let you have a near face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you need to fit therapy into a short break. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework, or when typing feels more manageable than speaking.
These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care, balance therapy with work or caregiving, and use techniques in the settings where you live and work.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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