Andrew Donelan
Family-focused clinician for parenting and relationships
- Credentials
- MD, LCSW-C
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Andrew
Andrew Donelan is a licensed clinician who focuses on family and parenting concerns. He brings 33 years of experience and blends practical skills with a straightforward, client-centered style. He speaks English and provides sessions from Maryland.
His credentials include MD and Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical, LCSW-C. Andrew emphasizes clear goals. He uses strength-based methods to help clients identify what is working and what needs to change.
Sessions often include mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral techniques to build coping skills and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
He can address issues tied to relationships, addiction, and trauma. Parents and family members may find him useful for navigating divorce and separation, blended family challenges, and fatherhood issues. He also works with concerns such as infidelity, jealousy, control or dependency patterns, and midlife adjustment.
There is attention to emotional health, communication, and restoring steadier family routines. He has experience supporting people with dual diagnosis needs and with end-of-life or hospice related counseling. Practical strategies, stress management, and relapse prevention are common session topics.
Andrew aims to help clients set realistic steps toward healing and clearer family interactions. Virtual options are available through video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. That flexibility is intended to make ongoing work easier for people juggling family and work demands.
Approaches and how online therapy works
Andrew commonly uses cognitive-behavioral techniques that focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and patterns that strain family life. He also incorporates mindfulness practices to increase present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity, which can be useful for stress, trauma symptoms, and parenting challenges.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest techniques that fit the situation. That collaborative process means strategies can change as needs evolve and progress is reviewed regularly.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make ongoing care more flexible. These options allow scheduling around work and family demands and make it easier to follow through on regular sessions and short check-ins. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to each format so the work continues between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
Next step
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