Donna San Salvador , LMHC

Donna San Salvador is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She works with issues around grief, parenting, intimacy, addiction, and self-esteem. Donna also supports people facing compassion fatigue, major life changes, and questions related to sexual identity and LGBT concerns.

She uses a practical, person-focused approach in sessions. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at finding tools that fit each person's life. Donna encourages clients to set clear goals and tries to move toward them at a steady pace.

Her background includes 13 years of clinical experience and a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling. She is licensed in Florida as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC.

Donna draws on several therapeutic methods to tailor care. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and emotionally focused practices to address thoughts, feelings, and relationship patterns. She may also use ideas from existential and Jungian approaches to help clients find meaning and deeper self-understanding.

Sessions aim to be collaborative. Donna listens for each person's values and priorities and offers strategies for coping, communication, and behavior change. People reach out to her for help with both immediate problems and longer-term personal growth.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Donna often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client. This approach helps people feel heard and guides goal-setting and decision making in therapy.

She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical method that looks at how thoughts and actions influence feelings. CBT is useful for managing anxiety, depression, and patterns that keep problems going. Emotionally-focused therapy is another approach she uses to address patterns in relationships by helping people identify and change the emotional dynamics that cause conflict.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Donna treats the choice of methods as a collaborative decision. She will discuss options, try different techniques, and adjust the plan to match the client's needs, goals, and preferences.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging formats are useful for short check-ins or when a written record of thoughts helps the process. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and reach care from different locations.