About Donna
Donna Iverson is a licensed clinical social worker with extensive experience providing emotional support and practical tools to people facing stress, anxiety, family conflict, grief, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
With 36 years in the field and an Illinois LCSW license, she emphasizes clients' own strengths and believes people are the experts in their own lives. Donna approaches therapy as a collaborative process, guiding clients who seek greater fulfillment, problem-solving help, or personal growth through thoughtful listening and evidence-informed strategies.
She brings a patient, strengths-based stance to work on self-esteem, coaching goals, and complex life transitions including adoption and foster care concerns, coping after disasters, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and issues related to veterans and first responders. Donna also addresses personality disorder presentations when relevant.
Over years of practice she has adopted modalities such as client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing, and she has found offering services online increases access for many people. Her work aims to help clients sort through change, build on their capabilities, and move toward clearer, more manageable next steps.
Approaches and Benefits of Online Therapy
Donna uses client-centered therapy to create a collaborative atmosphere where the client's perspective and priorities guide the work; this approach helps people explore their values and build on existing strengths. She also integrates cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical method that looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers tools for managing anxiety, stress, and unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and will be determined together. She will help clients identify goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what is most effective and acceptable for each person, keeping collaboration and client preferences central to the plan.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide flexibility for scheduling and make it easier to continue work between sessions. These options can support consistent access to therapy while fitting into varied routines, enabling clients to engage from locations in Illinois that work best for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Coaching
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English