About Donna
Donna Paloy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, low self-esteem, depression, or ADHD. Donna writes in plain language and focuses on practical steps that feel doable.
She takes a trauma-informed, whole-person approach. Sessions often mix evidence-based therapy with mindfulness and creative expression. That can mean learning breathing and grounding skills, trying new ways to notice thoughts, or using art and writing to name difficult feelings.
How Donna works
Donna has worked with people facing complicated trauma and abuse and with those managing mood disorders, grief, and life transitions. She also gives attention to related concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and communication struggles. Her experience includes diverse and often overlapping difficulties that affect daily life.
Expect a collaborative process that begins with clear goals. Donna and the person in therapy map out small, practical steps and track progress over time. She emphasizes building skills that help people feel more confident and more able to handle hard moments.
Donna practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Many people find the mix of structured techniques and creative tools helpful for making steady, concrete change.
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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Evidence-based techniques and flexible online care
Donna blends several practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and build skills. Mindfulness approaches teach simple attention and breathing exercises that reduce reactivity and calm the nervous system, which can help with anxiety and stress. Trauma-informed therapy focuses on safety, pacing, and understanding how past harm affects current feelings and behavior, useful for people coping with complicated trauma and abuse. Creative expression is used alongside these methods to help people put words to difficult emotions through drawing, journaling, or other arts, which can complement talk-based work and boost insight.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Donna works together with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan as needs and preferences become clearer. This collaborative stance helps find techniques that feel like a good fit and that can be used in daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when bandwidth allows, phone sessions can be easier when movement or multitasking is needed, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps keep continuity between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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