Donna Camerota
Compassionate practical support for life transitions
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Donna
Donna Camerota is a licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut with 24 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and mood disorders. Donna addresses relationship and communication struggles, grief, self-esteem, and the impact of chronic health issues.
She also works with concerns related to addiction, sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue. Her style is straightforward and empathetic. Sessions emphasize clear goals and practical steps.
Donna listens first, then helps clients find small changes that reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
She aims to make therapy feel doable even when life feels chaotic. In treatment she uses evidence-based tools. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Motivational Interviewing supports people finding their own reasons for change. People who come for help can expect a collaborative process.
The therapist and client set priorities together and check progress along the way. Sessions move at a pace that fits each person’s needs. Donna’s practice includes work around caregiving stress, attachment concerns, blended family issues, body image, aging and geriatric questions, and coping after disasters.
Her background supports addressing co-occurring conditions and complex life transitions. She provides services in English and practices in Connecticut.
Practical approaches for online therapy and care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person's perspective. It helps people feel heard and guides work on self-acceptance and decision making. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It teaches concrete steps to change unhelpful patterns and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with a client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person sessions, while phone, live chat, and text-based messaging provide options for shorter check-ins or ongoing support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to keep continuity when routines change.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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