About Donna
Donna Maso offers help for relationship conflict, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting struggles, and anger. She is a licensed clinical social worker with over 31 years of experience and brings a steady, practical approach to difficult moments. Clients find that sessions are straightforward and focused.
Donna listens carefully and helps people identify small, useful steps they can try between meetings. She draws on skills that help manage intense feelings and improve communication at home.
Background and approach
Her background spans outpatient, inpatient, crisis, and hospice settings. That experience shaped a practical style for people facing loss, medical caregiving, blended family challenges, and the long-term stresses of aging or chronic conditions. Donna uses a mix of familiar therapeutic approaches.
She combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral work and dialectical strategies to reduce reactivity and build coping skills. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are used to set clear goals and practice new habits. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented.
Donna helps people sort priorities, try specific strategies, and adjust plans as needed. She works in English and is based in Florida as a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW).
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgment. In online sessions this means the therapist mirrors concerns and helps clients name their priorities so work feels relevant and personal.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches people to notice unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments. Online work often includes homework between sessions, such as tracking moods or trying new responses to conflict.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers tools for managing strong emotions and improving communication. Skills like grounding, distress tolerance, and paced breathing are taught and practiced in sessions to use during stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each client about their goals and try different methods together until a good fit emerges. That collaborative stance helps tailor the mix of listening, skill-building, and problem-focused work.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone sessions are an option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or brief coaching between meetings. These formats give flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or mobility limits while keeping therapeutic work consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English