About Donald
Dr. Donald Strauss is a clinician with more than five decades of experience in mental health care. He holds an MD and social work licenses as LCSW-C and LISW and practices from South Carolina.
He has worked with people facing a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, addiction, and phobias. He has long worked with patients who face chronic and complex health challenges such as neurodegenerative disorders, bipolar disorder, and life-altering injury.
Background and approach
He also has experience supporting helping professionals who are coping with compassion fatigue. That background shapes a calm, steady approach in sessions. Dr.
Strauss uses methods that focus on how thoughts, feelings, and behavior interact. He emphasizes practical problem solving and building new ways of thinking that reduce distress in everyday life. Sessions often include setting clear steps people can try between meetings.
He favors a collaborative, respectful conversation rather than lecture-style guidance. People can expect to be asked about goals and what has helped or not helped before. The work is paced to the person’s needs and comfort level.
Dr. Strauss also draws on attachment-focused ideas to look at relationship patterns and on client-centered listening to understand each person’s experience. These influences help when people are addressing intimacy issues, relationship challenges, or struggles with self-esteem.
Practical matters such as session format, scheduling, and subscription billing are handled up front. Sessions are available in English and international clients may be served through online formats when appropriate.
How his approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape reactions today and can help with intimacy, attachment issues, and relationship struggles by identifying repeating patterns and building new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and experience; the therapist listens deeply and helps people find their own solutions, which suits work on self-esteem and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, and phobia-driven avoidance.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past, then try methods that fit the person. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made based on how someone responds.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy lives or mobility needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between sessions and can be useful for brief updates or to practice skills in the moment.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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 disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 52 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Maryland
- Languages
- English
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