About Donna
Donna Welles is a licensed independent clinical social worker with 13 years of experience in Massachusetts. She centers sessions on the person in front of her and respects each client as the expert on their own life. Donna focuses on everyday struggles like stress and anxiety while supporting people through change.
Her work often addresses motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. She also helps with depression and coping when life shifts in unexpected ways.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at practical steps people can try between meetings. Donna uses a client-centered approach that listens first and follows the client’s lead. She draws on techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to help people manage emotions and stay present.
These methods are used to build skills for stress, panic, and mood challenges. Clients can expect a warm, respectful space where strengths are noticed and used. Donna talks through small, doable strategies for communication, impulsivity, and relationship concerns.
She also supports people facing grief, trauma, or burnout from caregiving and work. People with attention challenges, eating or sleep difficulties, anger, or feelings of isolation may find focused tools here. Donna also attends to multicultural concerns and identity issues, including LGBT related stress.
Her approach is practical, steady, and collaborative.
How client-centered and skill-based therapy works online
Donna blends client-centered listening with skills-focused methods so online sessions feel practical and grounded. Client-Centered Therapy means the conversation follows the client's priorities and personal strengths, helping them set goals that matter. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers clear skills for managing intense emotions, reducing impulsive acts, and improving communication. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to increase present-moment awareness and reduce rumination.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Donna will discuss options and adjust methods based on each person's needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process helps pick strategies that fit day-to-day life and the challenges someone brings to therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat or messaging supports brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, and ongoing accountability without scheduling a full call. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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