Donna Bolinger, LCSW, LCSW-C

Donna Bolinger is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a person-centered approach to help people navigate hard changes and stressful times. She prefers straightforward, respectful conversations and works with individuals on issues like depression, anxiety, grief, and addictions. Donna draws on a mix of therapeutic styles to match each person’s needs and goals.

Donna has six years of practice listed in this profile and also brings longer experience from previous roles supporting people through aging, chronic illness, caregiving strain, and end-of-life concerns. She encourages open, honest dialogue so people can set clear goals and notice progress along the way.

Her method starts with listening and finding strengths to build on. From there she may use elements of cognitive behavioral techniques, client-centered methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, or narrative approaches depending on the issue. Sessions focus on practical steps and on making sense of how life events affect feelings and behavior.

Donna works with a wide variety of concerns that include relationship and family matters, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, eating and sleeping problems, anger and self-esteem, career questions, and compassion fatigue. She also lists areas such as ADHD, codependency, chronic pain or illness, and adjustment to loss or abandonment.

People who choose her often want a warm, respectful space to talk through change and to create realistic plans for coping. To begin, clients use the site process to match and schedule an initial session.

Online therapy approaches and what they do

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s perspective. The therapist helps people identify their strengths and goals and supports them as they try out changes in everyday life. This approach can help with life transitions, relationship strain, and feelings of emptiness.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. It teaches practical skills for coping with anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, and addictive behaviors by changing unhelpful thinking and practicing new actions.

Mindfulness therapy encourages paying attention to the present moment in a nonjudgmental way. Simple mindfulness practices can reduce stress, ease worry, and support better sleep and emotion management.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and will recommend which methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can change over time as progress and priorities become clearer.

Session options are not specified in this profile, so confirm available formats before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people meet with a licensed professional from different locations. These practical benefits often help people keep therapy consistent while they work through goals.