About Donna
Donna Khan is a licensed master social worker with 31 years of experience helping people navigate anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship concerns. She practices from Michigan and focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier. Donna aims to listen first and then help clients build useful skills that fit their lives.
Her work blends several approaches to match what each person needs. She uses client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on the clients priorities, and she incorporates cognitive behavioral strategies to address patterns of thinking that feed anxiety or depression.
Background and approach
Emotion-focused and attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationship and intimacy struggles. Donna has worked in inpatient medical social work and in outpatient clinic settings. That background means she has experience coordinating resources and helping people plan next steps after a crisis or health event.
Over three decades she has helped people with addiction, trauma, career transitions, and family conflict. In sessions she emphasizes clear, doable strategies. Clients can expect help developing coping tools for sleep, eating, anger, or overwhelm.
She also supports people dealing with life changes such as divorce, caregiving demands, or relocation. Donna welcomes conversations about identity and LGBT concerns, and she addresses issues like codependency, body image, and attachment wounds. She aims to create a respectful space where people move at their own pace toward goals they choose.
If someone wants to begin, Donna asks them to describe current struggles and priorities so together they can set goals and plan practical steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Donna uses client-centered therapy to keep conversations directed by the person's goals and priorities. This approach helps people feel heard and guides each session by what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, or phobias, offering concrete techniques to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that suit the situation, and adjust strategies as progress is reviewed. Clients and the therapist decide together which combination of techniques feels most helpful for their concerns and daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people read facial expression and body language, phone calls require less bandwidth, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping a steady course of support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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