About Donnise
Donnise Powell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on practical, down-to-earth therapy. She offers a warm, conversational style that aims to make sessions feel like a real talk with someone who cares. Donnise centers her work on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate hard life moments.
She helps people cope with grief, parenting pressures, and changes that come with new stages of life. Communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose and self-love are also common topics she addresses.
Background and approach
Her aim is to help clients find their own strength and direction rather than to solve problems for them. Her sessions are relational and grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She combines clinical tools with a genuine, human approach and will sometimes share personal insights when it can help build connection.
Humor and warmth are used to ease tension and create space for growth. Donnise works with people who want a therapist who listens closely and partners with them on goals. She integrates clients' values and, when wanted, spiritual or Christian perspectives into the work.
Every plan is tailored to what the individual wants to change and how they prefer to move forward. With six years of professional experience in California, she brings practical skills and steady support to sessions. People meet to talk, set small goals, and practice new ways of coping between meetings.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Many clients find benefit from evidence-based techniques that focus on present-day coping and building skills. One common approach emphasizes learning practical coping tools for anxiety and stress, such as breathing strategies, pacing tasks, and short behavioral experiments to test new ways of responding. These methods help when day-to-day symptoms feel overwhelming and people want concrete steps to try between sessions.Another helpful approach centers on processing grief and difficult emotions through guided conversation and meaning-making. This work supports people as they make sense of losses and adjust to life changes. It often includes steps to rebuild routines, reconnect with values, and practice self-compassion.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to identify goals and try techniques that fit their needs and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what isn’t, so clients shape the path forward alongside the therapist.
Online therapy offers flexibility to suit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is wanted. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, shorter updates, or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or parenting schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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