About Donna
Donna Bolinger is a licensed clinical social worker who provides individual therapy in Pennsylvania. She brings six years of experience as an LCSW and LCSW-C and aims to offer respectful, compassionate care. Donna works with adults on a wide range of life challenges.
She uses practical, collaborative methods to help people move forward. Donna focuses on common concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, and grief. She also helps people who face relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting stresses, career worries, and struggles with self-esteem.
How Donna works
Addictions, ADHD, sleep and eating issues, and compassion fatigue are part of her practice as well. Her approach blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy, plus Narrative Therapy and Motivational Interviewing when useful. Sessions aim to identify clear goals and build small, manageable steps toward them.
Donna emphasizes straightforward conversation and practical skills people can try between sessions. She has additional experience with aging and geriatric concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and end-of-life matters. Donna also supports people dealing with abandonment, blended family adjustments, divorce or separation, and communication or control issues.
Sessions are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Donna works in English and provides care to people located in Pennsylvania.
Donna lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Donna works with
The areas below are the ones Donna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How Donna’s Approaches Work Online
Donna often combines Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping the person identify their own goals. It helps when someone needs acceptance and a place to sort through feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Donna will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time in a collaborative way.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the schedule. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and allow brief check-ins between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people access regular support despite busy lives or distance.
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