About Donna
Donna San Salvador helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship struggles. She is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 13 years of experience. Donna works with issues like addiction, anger, parenting strain, self-esteem, and intimacy concerns.
She also supports people navigating attachment wounds, body image, blended family problems, and kink-affirming questions. Donna uses clear, practical conversation to help clients make changes. Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the person and finding steps that fit their life.
How Donna works
She draws from approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally-focused techniques, existential thinking, and Jungian ideas to shape each plan. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented. Donna helps people set achievable targets and practices skills between sessions.
She pays attention to family of origin patterns, communication habits, and ways past harm affects current relationships. Clients can expect a mix of talk, skills practice, and exploration of patterns and meaning. Donna supports people through grief, separation, caregiving stress, and recovery from domestic violence or substance problems.
She also addresses sexual identity and relationship complexities without judgment. Donna earned a master’s degree in mental health counseling and holds the LMHC credential in Florida. She provides therapy in English and sees clients located in Florida.
Her work aims to help people feel steadier, think more clearly, and move toward the life they want.
Donna lists 9 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and perspective. It involves empathic listening and helping the client discover their answers, which can be useful for relationship stress, self-esteem, and life transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches practical skills and experiments to reduce anxiety, manage anger, and change unhelpful habits.
Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) helps people understand and shift emotional responses in relationships. It is often helpful when attachment, intimacy, and communication problems are a concern.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for quick updates, coaching-style support, or when written reflection helps process emotions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, family, and other responsibilities.
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