About Donna
Donna Khan is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) based in Michigan with 31 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, addictions, parenting strain, and life transitions. Donna aims to listen first and then help people find manageable next steps.
Her background includes inpatient medical social work and outpatient clinic practice. That mix gave her experience with crisis situations and with longer-term care.
Background and approach
She has worked alongside medical teams and in community settings to connect people with resources and coping tools. Donna uses somatic-informed methods alongside attachment-based and client-centered approaches. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies to teach skills for emotion regulation, communication, and self-care.
Sessions focus on what the person needs now and simple strategies to try between meetings. She helps people address specific concerns like trauma and abuse, parenting stress, caregiving burden, body image, codependency, and substance issues. She also supports people facing career change, divorce, aging-related worries, and compassion fatigue.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Donna works in English and offers online session formats to reach people wherever they are. She emphasizes respect, collaboration, and pacing therapy to each person’s comfort level.
If someone wants practical tools and calm guidance, she aims to be that steady presence.
How Somatic and Attachment Approaches Work Online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. With this approach a therapist helps people notice sensations, breathing, and posture to reduce tension and build grounding skills. It can help with anxiety, trauma aftereffects, and chronic stress.Attachment-based therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and reactions. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and learn new ways to connect and communicate. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's pace, creating space to talk things through and identify realistic goals.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort. That collaborative planning can include trying a few techniques and adjusting based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Those options offer flexibility for busy schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or when in-person visits are difficult. People can practice skills between sessions and stay connected in the ways that suit them best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English