About Donna
Donna Khan is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) with 31 years of experience based in Michigan. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship strain, and other life challenges. Donna emphasizes listening first and helping clients find what works for them.
She uses client-centered work to meet people where they are and to build a cooperative relationship. Donna draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early patterns shape current relationships.
How Donna works
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to help change unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior strategies for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Her background includes inpatient medical social work and outpatient clinic practice. Those settings taught her to create simple, usable plans and to adapt approaches to real-life limits like time and energy.
Donna helps people develop skills and strategies to cope with recurring problems and big transitions. Common issues she addresses include family conflict, intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, career changes, compassion fatigue, and co-occurring substance use or mood concerns. She also helps people with body image, attachment wounds, and communication problems.
Her style is respectful and paced to each person’s readiness for change. Donna combines practical exercises, communication coaching, and short-term skill building with deeper work on relational patterns. She encourages small steps that produce noticeable relief and clearer choices over time.
Donna lists 11 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 31 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How Donna’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people notice patterns that repeat in adult life. It can help when relationship problems, abandonment worries, or attachment issues make trusting and closeness difficult.Client-centered therapy focuses on building a trusting, nonjudgmental relationship where the person’s goals lead the work. This approach supports people who want a compassionate space to sort out feelings and make their own choices.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones, paired with practical behavioral steps. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and changing patterns that keep problems in place.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Donna will work collaboratively to assess needs, goals, and preferences and then shape sessions around what feels most helpful. That shared planning helps keep therapy practical and focused on short-term wins as well as deeper change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth or schedules limit video, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while maintaining regular contact with a licensed professional.
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