About Donald
Donald Rindfuss is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania with 15 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage addiction, trauma, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. Donald takes a relaxed, down-to-earth approach and draws on practical tools like mindfulness and values-based work to help people move forward.
Donald trained at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a Master of Social Work. He has worked in veterans' services and inpatient drug rehabilitation settings.
How Donald works
That background gives him experience with substance use, trauma related to service, and end-of-life and caregiving concerns. In sessions he uses clear, action-oriented methods such as acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and motivational interviewing. He also brings mindfulness and narrative practices into the room to help people notice patterns and try new responses.
Sessions often mix short skill practice with conversation about values and next steps. Clients can expect a calm, patient presence and practical guidance rather than long clinical lectures. Donald mentions a laid-back style and uses life experience to relate to common struggles.
He supports people working through anger, low self-esteem, codependency, and process addictions among other concerns. Therapy can be brief coaching or a longer process depending on the issue. Donald offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexibility.
He accepts international clients and conducts therapy in English.
Donald lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Donald works with
The areas below are the ones Donald selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How his approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people get clear about what matters to them and take small actions in that direction even when feelings are hard. It is often used for anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm, which can help with trauma reactions and compulsive behaviors.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. He will talk with each person about goals, try a few small techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative rhythm makes it easier to find methods that fit a person’s life and preferences.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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