About Donna
Donna Khan, LMSW, brings more than three decades of clinical social work experience to her practice. She focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, addiction, and ADHD. Donna listens, helps set achievable goals, and works alongside clients to build everyday coping skills.
She trained at Wayne State University and began practicing in 1994. Over the years she has worked in hospital medical social work and outpatient clinic settings.
Background and approach
That mix of settings gave her experience with crisis moments and with longer-term therapy work. Donna uses approaches that center the client and teach skills. Sessions often include exploring patterns in relationships, learning concrete ways to manage intense emotions, and practicing new habits for thinking and behavior.
She helps people translate insights into steps they can try between sessions. Her background includes work with issues such as family conflict, intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, career transitions, and complex grief. She also supports people facing substance use problems, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue tied to caregiving roles.
Clients can expect a respectful, steady presence and a focus on practical strategies. Donna aims to build a therapeutic relationship that moves at each person’s pace and addresses the problems they bring into the room.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Donna draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and current relationships shape emotional reactions and patterns. This approach is useful when someone wants to understand recurring relationship problems or feelings of abandonment.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on listening and supporting each person’s goals. That approach helps people feel heard while they decide what changes matter to them. Donna incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking and build practical skills for coping with anxiety, low mood, and behavior patterns.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Donna works with clients to try methods that fit their goals and daily life, and she adjusts the plan as progress and preferences emerge. The aim is to create a workable path forward together, not to force a specific model.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video lets people work more face to face, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing, flexible contact between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, and travel while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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