Donna Paloy

Donna Paloy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than 25 years of experience helping people through hard times. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and ADHD. Her manner is calm and direct, aimed at helping parents and individuals find ways to feel steadier day to day.

Donna uses a trauma-informed, whole-person approach. She combines evidence-based therapy with mindfulness and creative expression. In sessions she helps people build routines, practice coping skills, and try simple exercises that can reduce overwhelm and increase clarity.

Her work often addresses complicated trauma and abuse alongside mood concerns. She also pays attention to related issues such as attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster-care history, and the challenges of caregiving and chronic illness. Practical problem solving and emotional processing are both part of the work.

Donna aims to make the process collaborative. She helps clients set clear goals and develop steps they can follow between sessions. Progress is measured in concrete changes - better sleep, fewer panic moments, clearer thinking, or stronger boundaries - rather than abstract ideas.

Sessions are guided by what each person brings. Donna supports exploration of identity, relationships, and coping patterns while offering tools for everyday life. She works from Florida and conducts sessions in English for people located within the same country.

Approaches that guide online care

Donna blends evidence-based therapy with mindfulness and creative expression. Evidence-based therapy involves practical techniques shown to help with mood and anxiety problems; these techniques focus on changing thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Mindfulness teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and calm the body during stress. Creative expression uses art, writing, or other creative exercises to help people access feelings that can be hard to name.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then try techniques that fit those needs. Clients and the therapist check in about what helps and adjust the plan together over time.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. It can reduce travel time, allow scheduling around work and caregiving, and let people join from different rooms in their home. Because session formats are not specified in the biography, confirm current online and in-person options before booking to know what will work best for your schedule.