About Donna
Donna Curran is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people reduce anxiety and feel less overwhelmed. She focuses on improving relationships, increasing hope, and finding practical ways to cope. Her style is direct and collaborative, aimed at small, steady changes that fit everyday life.
Donna brings three decades of experience to sessions. She listens for what matters most and works with each person to set clear, short-term goals. Sessions often focus on what can be changed now, with straightforward tools to manage stress, mood, and conflict.
Background and approach
Her background includes a Master of Social Work from Temple University and a Master of Health Administration from Pennsylvania State University. Donna holds Florida and Virginia LCSW credentials and has postgraduate study in Structural Family Therapy from the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic.
In practical terms, she helps people facing depression, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, parenting challenges, anger, low self-esteem, career shifts, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and coping with life changes. She also supports LGBT clients navigating identity and relationships. Sessions are framed as a partnership.
Donna tracks progress and adjusts the plan so work stays relevant. She focuses on tools that people can use between appointments to make daily life feel more manageable and meaningful.
How evidence-based approaches are used online
Donna uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear thinking and practical change. One common approach emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns to reduce anxiety and depression. This method helps people notice thinking habits and practice different, more balanced responses in daily life.Another approach targets concrete goals and small steps toward solutions. It breaks larger problems into manageable tasks and teaches coping skills for stress, cravings, sleep, and mood swings. These techniques are useful for relationship concerns, parenting stress, and adjusting to life changes.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try strategies, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and therapist work together to decide which methods fit needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send short updates, practice skills between sessions, or have brief check-ins when schedules are tight.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English