About Donna
Donna San Salvador is a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor with 13 years of experience working with anxiety and related concerns. She focuses on practical ways to reduce worry, manage stress, and address reactions that feel overwhelming. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping people feel more stable and in control.
She sees anxiety alongside issues such as depression, trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, grief, intimacy concerns, and relationship strain.
Background and approach
She also helps people dealing with parenting stress, caregiver fatigue, and challenges tied to body image or attachment wounds. Donna uses methods that help people notice patterns, try new responses, and practice small, manageable changes between sessions. Her work draws on client-centered principles that prioritize each person’s goals and pace.
She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify thinking patterns that feed anxiety and to test different ways of coping. Emotion-focused techniques support people who want to improve closeness and emotional understanding in relationships. Donna completed a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and holds a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, LMHC.
She brings over a decade of clinical practice to each case and adapts strategies to what the individual needs. When someone reaches out, she collaborates on a plan that fits daily life and therapy goals. Sessions can include skills practice, talking through painful memories, or coaching for life transitions and relationship decisions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals and experience first. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients decide what matters most so sessions focus on real-life changes and steps that feel manageable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact; it teaches skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people understand and shift emotional patterns that get in the way of close relationships and personal stability.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss different methods and try options that fit a client’s needs, goals, and comfort level. The process is collaborative, with periodic check-ins to see what’s working and what needs adjusting.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people read facial expressions and use screens for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when video isn’t practical or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, progress notes, and quick coaching between longer appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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