Donna Paloy, LCSW

Donna Paloy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, low self-esteem, and ADHD. She welcomes honest conversation and aims to make the first steps feel manageable. Her style is practical and respectful, focused on small changes that add up over time.

Donna’s work centers on trauma-informed, whole-person care. She sees complicated trauma and abuse and supports people through mood disorders, grief, and major life changes. She blends evidence-based therapy with mindfulness and creative expression to help clients find more clarity and calm.

Sessions often include straightforward skills practice, guided mindfulness, and ways to use creative activities to process feelings. Donna helps people build confidence, reduce overwhelm, and steady their emotions. She emphasizes a step-by-step plan that fits each person’s life and goals.

Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, body image, chronic illness and pain, caregiving stress, and relationship patterns like codependency and commitment worries. She also works with people exploring BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture.

Donna practices in Florida as an LCSW. She communicates in English and does not currently accept international clients. To begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability.

Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online

Donna uses evidence-based techniques alongside mindfulness and creative expression. Evidence-based therapy involves using approaches that focus on clear goals and skills practice to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Mindfulness work teaches simple attention and breathing skills to help manage stress and reactivity. Creative expression offers ways to name and process feelings through art, writing, or movement when words alone are not enough.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, life context, and goals, then try methods that fit their needs. Goals and methods are revisited over time so the plan can change as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking, since the biography does not list specific formats. Online care can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and reduce travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins when a full session is not needed, and make it simpler to use mindfulness practices between appointments. Discuss practical needs and preferences during the initial matching so sessions work with everyday life rather than against it.