About Donna
Dr. Donna St. Hillier is a licensed mental health counselor who brings 40 years of experience to sessions.
She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and coping with life changes, and she aims to make therapy a straightforward, practical process for people feeling overwhelmed. She uses clear, down-to-earth language in sessions and invites clients to build on the strengths they already have.
Her work centers on helping people name what is hard, notice patterns, and try small changes that can make daily life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
Over four decades she has worked with concerns that include abandonment, caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, and end-of-life issues. That breadth of experience helps her recognize common reactions to loss, illness, and big life transitions. She also supports people facing identity issues such as gender dysphoria and LGBT-related stress.
Therapy draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, psychodynamic thinking, and client-centered work. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with practical tools offered when they match a person's needs. Dr.
St. Hillier practices in Florida as an FL LMHC. She offers remote options and ways to fit therapy into busy lives.
Her style is warm and respectful, and she encourages people to bring their real concerns into the room so they can work on what matters most.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck on them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying behavior changes that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It is often used for stress, anxiety, and depression. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and supporting a person's own pace of change, which helps people feel understood as they work through difficult issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and is done together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how certain methods feel in practice, then try options that fit the situation. That collaborative style makes it easier to adjust course if something is not helping.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for longer conversations and visual cues, phone calls can fit a break at work or be used when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text works for brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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