About Donna
Donna Camerota is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Connecticut. She brings 24 years of experience helping individuals manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Donna focuses on practical steps people can use right away and listens for what matters most to each person.
Her work often centers on relationship concerns, grief, self-esteem, and coping with chronic health issues. She also supports people facing mood disorders, addiction struggles, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Donna helps people sort through hard feelings like anger, guilt, and shame in clear, direct ways. Donna uses conversational, goal-oriented sessions that match each person’s pace. She helps clients build communication skills, strengthen self-care, and make small changes that add up.
Sessions are meant to feel like a thoughtful, steady conversation rather than a rush to fix things instantly. Over her career Donna has learned to blend several approaches to fit real life problems. She draws from client-centered methods, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and skills-based strategies to address unhelpful thoughts and reactions.
Together with each person she identifies practical tools they can try between sessions. People who benefit most are looking for someone who hears them and offers clear steps forward. Donna combines steady support with concrete strategies for daily life.
She practices as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker - in Connecticut and conducts sessions in English.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Donna uses client-centered methods to create a respectful space where a person’s goals guide the work. This approach emphasizes listening, understanding what matters most, and shaping sessions around the client’s priorities.She also applies cognitive-behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns that worsen mood or anxiety. CBT is useful for stress, sleeping problems, and when someone wants concrete techniques to try between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are offered as needed to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. These skills help when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone needs clearer ways to manage strong reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Donna collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what is or isn’t working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, so people can choose what fits their day. Video works well for longer sessions and face-to-face connection. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or messaging is useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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 and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English