About Donna
Donna Robberecht is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four decades of experience helping people face anxiety and other concerns. She keeps sessions straightforward and practical so worried parents can follow along. Her approach focuses on clear communication and steady support to help people take the next steps.
Donna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at long-standing patterns that affect relationships and mood.
Background and approach
Those two approaches are used together to address trauma, depression, stress, and anxiety in daily life. People come to her for help with grief, parenting strain, career stress, and relationship conflict. She also works with issues such as codependency, caregiver stress, isolation, and midlife transitions.
Her style is practical and attentive - she listens, reflects, and offers tools people can try between sessions. Sessions can include talking through recent events, identifying thinking patterns, and practicing small behavior changes. Donna aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored.
She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes. Donna is based in California and has many years of clinical work behind her. She supports people who want clear guidance, skills to manage stress and anxiety, and a thoughtful partner in working through life changes.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real life. It teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, mood, and stress through small behavior changes and thought work.Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat over time and affect relationships and self-esteem. It helps people understand how past experiences shape present reactions and supports longer-term change in mood and behavior.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video is useful when visual contact helps the conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can be useful for quick check-ins or when a shorter format is preferred. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to keep steady appointments while managing family, work, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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