About Donna
Donna Marchant-Roof is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Virginia. She brings 30 years of experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and big life changes. She also supports people dealing with trauma, caregiver strain, workplace pressure, and decisions about career or leadership roles.
Donna trained in social work and completed a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree in Virginia. Over three decades she has worked with adults across many stages of life, with recent emphasis on older adults and lifestyle adjustments tied to changing medical conditions.
Background and approach
Her background also includes coaching health care professionals and others stepping into leadership positions. Her way of working centers on the person in front of her. She uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most to each person.
Then she blends cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques to build practical steps forward. Sessions usually focus on clear, reachable goals. Donna helps people notice small changes that make a difference and develop skills for coping with stress, grief, or workplace demands.
She pays attention to the whole situation, including care responsibilities and life transitions. People who choose Donna can expect steady, practical support. Work together to set priorities and try tools that fit daily life.
The process aims to be collaborative, straightforward, and oriented toward results over time.
Approaches and online options that fit your life
Donna uses client-centered methods to focus on each person's priorities and strengths. This approach means sessions begin by listening closely to what matters most, then shaping goals around those priorities. It works well when someone needs to feel heard and build a plan that matches their everyday life.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. CBT is helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and workplace struggles because it emphasizes specific steps and experiments people can try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Donna collaborates with people to choose which methods to try based on their goals and preferences. Together they set small, achievable steps and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging fit quick check-ins or shorter coaching-style contacts. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English