About Donice
Donice Holbrook is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of clinical experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, low self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and depression. She describes her work as straightforward and compassionate, focused on practical steps that reduce daily distress. People come to her when life feels overwhelming or when mood and worry interfere with everyday routines.
Her style is calm and attentive. She listens for what matters most and helps people set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on clearer communication, managing intense emotions, and building healthier habits. Donice draws on approaches that are rooted in evidence to help people change unhelpful patterns. Her background includes long-term work in clinical settings across California.
Donice blends clinical experience with attention to each person’s values and life story. She also brings sensitivity to issues such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric matters, chronic illness, and end-of-life concerns. In practical terms she helps people cope with substance use, money and financial stress, obsessions and compulsions, panic attacks, social anxiety, and self-harm thoughts.
She also supports people navigating communication problems and domestic violence aftermath. Donice offers services in English and works via online formats like video and phone, as well as chat and text messaging. She encourages a collaborative process to find goals that fit the client’s life and priorities.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Donice uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, teaching skills to reduce anxiety and lift mood. Another approach emphasizes building healthy routines and coping strategies to manage stress, cravings, and mood swings, which is useful for addictions and depression.Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will ask about your goals, daily challenges, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then recommend methods to try. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress and needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation when desired. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or people who prefer writing. These formats help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping treatment focused on clear goals and usable skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English