About Donna
Donna Robberecht is a licensed clinical social worker with four decades of experience helping people through hard times. She focuses on trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, and life transitions. Donna uses straightforward talk and calm guidance to help people find clearer thinking and better coping.
She works from California and conducts sessions in English. Donna blends two main approaches to tailor care. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
How Donna works
She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at long-standing patterns that affect relationships and feelings. Together these approaches help address mood concerns, post-traumatic stress, self-esteem, and communication problems. Over 40 years, Donna has supported people facing caregiving stress, aging and geriatric issues, codependency, and midlife challenges.
She helps those who struggle with guilt, shame, isolation, or finding life purpose. Practical problems like money stress, career crossroads, and dependent personality issues are part of her work as well. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person.
Donna helps set goals, practices new skills, and looks back at what keeps patterns repeating. She encourages honest conversation about setbacks and steps forward. When someone is new to therapy, Donna offers clear next steps and simple tools to begin.
Her style is direct but compassionate, focused on usable strategies rather than jargon.
Donna lists 2 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How CBT and Psychodynamic Work Online
Donna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that can ease anxiety or low mood. CBT is practical and often focuses on skills to manage stress, mood disorders, and post-traumatic stress symptoms.She also uses psychodynamic therapy to look at recurring patterns and early experiences that shape reactions today. This approach can help people understand relationship struggles, attachment issues, and why certain feelings repeat across situations.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Donna will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to prioritize skill-building, deeper exploration, or a mix of both.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video lets people see nonverbal cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can work for short check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping care consistent.
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