About Donna
Donna Marie Clark is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with more than three decades of clinical experience. She helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addictions, and anger. Her work also covers self-esteem, relationship strain, trauma, and coping with life changes.
Donna uses a conversational, respectful style. She listens first and adapts sessions to the person in front of her. The aim is to build practical skills and clearer thinking that fit everyday life, not just theory.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that break problems into thoughts and actions. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice values and take small steps toward them. Emotionally-Focused and Attachment-Based work inform how she talks about closeness and trust in relationships.
Clients can expect a mix of coaching and therapy focused on real-world changes. Sessions include skill practice, short homework, and direct talk about patterns that keep problems going. She pays attention to motivation and uses Motivational Interviewing where readiness for change is unclear.
Donna has worked for many years with people facing addiction, bipolar mood challenges, compassion fatigue, and issues like impulsivity and control problems. She also addresses concerns related to aging, intellectual disability, autism spectrum traits, and communication problems. Her manner is practical, patient, and nonjudgmental.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Donna draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to guide online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to change patterns. That approach is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and impulsivity. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values despite difficult feelings, which often suits stress, life changes, and motivation struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to learn about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they pick and adapt methods so sessions stay practical and relevant to daily routines.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets you work face-to-face and practice new skills. Phone sessions can be simpler when video isn’t needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, tracking progress, or fitting therapy into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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