Donna Welles, LICSW

Donna Welles is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience in Massachusetts. She centers sessions on each person's lived experience and strengths. She aims to help people who feel stuck, anxious, overwhelmed, or unsure about next steps.

Donna uses a straightforward, collaborative style in sessions. She listens, asks practical questions, and helps people identify small changes that add up. She supports people coping with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions.

Her work also addresses relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, jealousy, and communication problems. She helps people work on impulse control, anger, and patterns that keep coming up. She also supports those facing grief, trauma and abuse, and the complex effects of co-morbid conditions.

Donna integrates client-centered ideas with Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices. That means sessions focus on understanding what matters to the person, building emotion regulation skills, and practicing present-moment awareness. The goal is to make coping tools more useful in daily life.

She values direct support and practical steps. People leave sessions with things to try between meetings, and a clearer sense of what they want next. To begin, she asks about priorities and works together to shape realistic goals.

How Donna's Approaches Work Online

Donna draws on client-centered therapy to start where the person is, listen closely, and shape sessions around their goals. This approach focuses on respect and understanding and helps people feel heard before moving to change.

She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas to teach concrete skills for managing strong emotions and reducing impulsive reactions. DBT-informed exercises are useful for anxiety, mood swings, and relationship stress. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to help people notice difficult thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept away by them.

Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Donna works with clients to identify priorities, test methods, and adjust the plan as needs change. She helps people weigh what feels most useful and practical for their daily life.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into workdays, reduce travel time, or choose a meeting style that matches energy and comfort. A therapist can also suggest shorter check-ins or focused skill practices when that better suits a schedule.