About Donny
Donny Simpson is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage anxiety and other life stresses. He creates a calm, respectful space where clients can talk about what feels hard. He focuses on clear, practical steps as well as understanding the feelings behind them.
He uses straightforward talk and listening to help clients untangle relationship patterns and personal worries. Donny draws on approaches that emphasize relationships and present-day thinking to address issues like trauma, addiction, grief, and career strain.
Background and approach
He also supports people dealing with body image, codependency, and questions about gender and sexuality. Sessions often include skill-building for communication and coping, together with attention to emotional patterns that repeat over time. Donny aims to help people notice how old ways of relating show up now, and then practice different responses.
He blends reflection and active exercises so clients leave with usable ideas. He has six years of clinical experience and holds a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential - LMFT. Donny offers sessions in English from California and does not take international clients.
People work with him by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling based on therapist availability. He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect.
Approach and online session options
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences shape how people relate now. It helps when anxiety or relationship patterns feel tied to how someone connects with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is useful for managing anxiety, changing unhelpful thinking, and building coping skills. Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's goals and pacing, offering nonjudgmental listening and reflection to help people find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Donny collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. He checks in as therapy progresses and adjusts techniques based on what helps most, making the process a shared effort.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice conversations in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break or commute. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick tools, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while focusing on the approaches that work best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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