About Donna
Donna Camerota is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience in Connecticut. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, grief, and life transitions. Donna centers her work on practical steps and steady support during difficult moments.
Her sessions are grounded in straightforward conversation and clear tools. She uses approaches that help people identify unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and strengthen communication. She pays attention to how health problems, caregiver roles, and major life changes affect daily routines and mood.
How Donna works
Donna often helps people facing relationship strain, challenges with self-esteem and body image, addiction concerns, and repeated patterns like codependency or control issues. She also works with issues tied to aging, chronic illness, and burnout or compassion fatigue. When trauma or abuse is part of the story, she combines skill-building with careful pacing.
Her style is respectful and collaborative. She encourages small, achievable steps and tracks progress together. People looking for help with sleep disruption, anger, career stress, bipolar disorder, or disruptive mood challenges can explore clear strategies and practical routines.
Sessions include talking through current problems, practicing new coping skills, and setting realistic goals. Donna supports people who want focused, goal-oriented work as well as those needing space to process grief and life changes. The emphasis is on useful change you can try between sessions.
Donna lists 6 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
How Donna's Approaches Fit Online Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person's own goals and pace. The therapist listens closely and helps people clarify what matters most to them, which can be useful for grief, life transitions, and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on finding and testing unhelpful thoughts and building new routines. It works well for anxiety, sleep problems, mood concerns, and many day-to-day stressors because it gives concrete strategies to practice between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. Those tools can help when intense emotions, anger, or relationship issues get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about their needs, goals, and preferences and choose or blend methods together. That collaboration helps shape a plan that feels doable and focused on what the person wants to change.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and step-by-step skill practice between scheduled appointments.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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