About Donna
Donna Paloy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of practice. She focuses on helping people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, depression, low self-esteem, and attention challenges. She speaks plain with clients and aims to make the first step feel manageable and clear.
Donna draws on a trauma-informed and holistic outlook. She combines evidence-based therapeutic techniques with mindfulness and creative ways to work through difficult feelings. Sessions emphasize practical tools clients can use between meetings to reduce overwhelm and build steady routines.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on complicated trauma and abuse, and on mood and anxiety concerns. She also addresses worries tied to abandonment, attachment, blended family dynamics, body image, caregiving strain, chronic illness or pain, and relationship or communication struggles. Donna pays attention to how these issues interact and affect daily life.
Therapy with her typically starts with a focused plan and clear goals. She tailors pacing and exercises to a person’s needs, mixing conversation with experiential methods like mindfulness and creative expression. The aim is more clarity, better coping skills, and gradual change.
Donna practices in Florida and holds the credential Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW. Sessions are offered in English and include several online formats like video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Donna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside mindfulness and creative expression. Evidence-based techniques focus on clear strategies to change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior and are useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness work teaches simple attention and breathing practices that help reduce overwhelm and improve focus. Creative expression offers hands-on ways to process feelings when words are hard to find.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Donna will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust as progress unfolds. That collaborative process helps tailor interventions to what actually helps someone feel steadier and more able to cope.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use verbal and visual cues during conversation. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat or text messaging can serve for short check-ins, ongoing support between appointments, or for people who prefer written communication. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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