Donna San Salvador
Family-focused counselor for parents and partners
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Donna
Donna San Salvador is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside anxiety, stress, trauma, and relationship difficulties. She draws on 13 years of experience to help people who are coping with depression, grief, addiction, intimacy questions, and parenting stress. Donna works to create straightforward plans so families and partners can move forward together.
Her approach is practical and person-centered. She listens first, then helps clients pick tools that fit their situation.
Background and approach
Sessions include clear strategies for communication, emotion regulation, and problem solving. She also uses techniques from cognitive behavioral and emotionally-focused therapy when they suit the client. Donna has trained in several therapeutic traditions, and she adapts methods to each family or couple.
She considers attachment patterns, life stage challenges, and past trauma when shaping treatment. That flexibility helps when people come with layered problems like substance use, codependency, or blended family issues. Clients receive help addressing specific behaviors and building new patterns at home.
Work may include setting boundaries, improving parenting routines, or rebuilding trust after separation or loss. The therapist aims for steady, measurable progress rather than quick fixes. Donna earned a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and is licensed in Florida as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC.
She combines that training with a focus on practical steps that families can use between sessions.
How Donna’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, validating the client’s experience, and building treatment around what that person says they need. This approach is helpful for relationship concerns, parenting stress, and improving communication. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It breaks big problems into small steps and introduces skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Donna collaborates with each client to choose approaches that match their goals and preferences. Together they try techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let therapists observe interactions and nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can be easier for busy parents. Live chat and text messaging give short-term support between sessions and a way to check in about homework or parenting tasks. These options make it easier to fit therapy into family life and keep momentum between meetings.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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point