Donda Roach
Calm, practical support for life transitions
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Donda
Donda Roach is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience in Oklahoma. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship strain, intimacy concerns, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and major life transitions. She also works with issues such as adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, attachment and personality-related concerns, and coping after disasters.
Her style is practical and focused on what a person can do next.
Background and approach
In session she centers the conversation on each person’s priorities. She listens first, then helps identify realistic steps to try between meetings. Many clients find concrete tools useful for anxiety, mood, and sleep.
She draws on techniques that encourage small, doable changes rather than abstract theory. Her methods combine client-centered listening with solution-focused planning and strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy. Motivational interviewing is used when people need help finding the motivation to change habits.
This mix is aimed at building skills and confidence over time. She frames work as a partnership. The client’s experience guides the pace and goals.
The therapist’s role is to offer structure, teach techniques, and help track progress toward clearer coping and improved daily functioning. Donda emphasizes practical outcomes like better communication, steadier mood, improved sleep, and clearer decision-making. She encourages trying small experiments in daily life and reviewing what helps.
Sessions are oriented toward solving current problems and strengthening a person’s ability to manage future challenges.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Donda uses client-centered therapy to build sessions around what matters most to the person. That means listening closely and shaping goals from the client’s own priorities. It is useful for people who want a collaborative, respectful process that follows their pace.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT provides practical exercises for managing anxiety, improving mood, and addressing sleep problems. These tools are concrete and can be practiced between sessions to create change over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help choose methods based on your needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted as progress is reviewed.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. These formats make it easier to keep continuity when life gets busy and allow for shorter check-ins or longer sessions as needed. Many people find this flexibility helps them stick with the work and try new skills in daily life.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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