About Donna
Donna Paloy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or trauma. Parents reading this will find straightforward language and a calm, steady presence that aims to make getting help less daunting.
Donna draws on a trauma-informed, whole-person way of working. She addresses complicated trauma and abuse alongside mood concerns and attention differences such as ADHD.
Background and approach
Sessions mix practical strategies with mindfulness and creative expression to help people build clearer thinking and steadier emotions. Her style is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Donna listens for what feels most urgent, then breaks larger problems into small, manageable steps.
That can mean learning breathing or grounding skills, practicing ways to change unhelpful behavior, or using creative exercises to access difficult feelings. Over the years she has supported people facing grief, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, relationship and attachment struggles, body image concerns, and challenges tied to adoption or foster care.
She also works with people exploring kink or alternative sexual culture and those coping with cancer or serious health issues. Donna offers a mix of conversation and hands-on tools so progress feels practical. She encourages clients to set short-term goals and checks in on what is and isn’t working.
The emphasis is on steady, realistic steps toward more control and confidence.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Donna often combines evidence-based techniques with mindfulness and creative expression. Evidence-based techniques involve targeted exercises and skill practice to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; these methods are useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related struggles. Mindfulness is the practice of noticing thoughts and bodily sensations without immediate reaction, which can help reduce stress and reactivity in moments of overwhelm. Creative expression uses drawing, writing, or other media to explore feelings that can be hard to put into words and can be particularly helpful for trauma and grief.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. From there, they tailor a plan and adjust it over time based on what feels most useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are close to in-person sessions and allow visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is low or for those who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework support, or when someone needs frequent, brief contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between scheduled meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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