About Donna
Donna San Salvador helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship problems. She is a licensed mental health counselor, LMHC, based in Florida with 13 years of clinical experience. Her approach aims to make therapy clear and practical for people juggling busy lives.
Donna listens first to understand each person's history and current struggles. She uses a mix of approaches to match what an individual needs, and explains options in everyday language.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on manageable steps and realistic goals rather than vague therapy jargon. Her background includes extensive work with substance use concerns, grief, anger, and intimacy-related issues. She also addresses parenting strain, caregiver stress, body image, and patterns like codependency and attachment difficulties.
Donna supports people navigating blended families, separation, and the fallout from domestic violence or natural disasters. Therapy can include looking at thoughts and behaviors, exploring emotions and relationship patterns, and reflecting on personal meaning and life choices. She adapts methods to fit someone’s pace and preferences, whether the focus is coping skills, deeper emotional work, or practical problem solving.
Sessions are offered in English and provided through online formats. Donna emphasizes collaboration so each person knows the plan and the next small steps toward feeling better.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's experience in the moment and encourages honest, empathetic listening. It helps when someone needs space to tell their story and to feel heard without judgment.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It offers practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and build better coping habits for anxiety, depression, and stress.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) pays attention to emotional responses in relationships and helps people understand and shift the patterns that cause conflict. It can be useful for improving communication and emotional connection.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed so the plan matches the client's needs and preferences.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and messaging let someone check in between sessions or fit short conversations into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English