donna's blog

When my books flooded I was of course devastated. Most of these I have duplicated on my kindle already. But who can read anymore? Lack...

Post Pandemic Teens: My landscaper said, after this the kids are "spiritually bankrupt." He's right you know. There are a lot of kids...

Really it's so bad. Teens are in trouble. The teens in my group are laughing and screaming, alone in their rooms or wandering in cars or...

I studied family therapy for many years. Then I studied working with teens. Then I studied trauma. So when I got a new case that had all...

***Photo Credit: Rebecca Weston Corona Times Every day my phone rings, a parent calling for their 13 yo daughter with depression; or a...

**photo credit: Rosalind Bank I get it, you get it. For me it only started when my kids began driving. While I'm sitting in my peaceful...

I kept away from trauma treatment for a long time; I thought it would make me depressed. Yet now that we're in a pandemic, I decided to...

Several of my clients were talking about change. Hard to leave college. Hard to make friends. Hard to find a job, live at home and not...

It occurred to me the other day that I was laughing with a client because I completely and utterly understood where she was coming from. And then it hit me. No wonder I've been so busy helping my young adult clients overcome anxiety—wait for it—I “have it”, or should I say, “it has me” too! Of course, I have known this for many decades, but that day I had a kind of breakthrough. I can laugh at the insanity of it all. I've been there and done that on almost every occasion. My

My adolescent clients have been coming in with terrible angst. They are triggered and tested to death. Kids say that school has no...

Many therapists have "branded" their practices: Winding Road, Finding Yourself, Path to Fulfillment, Thoughtful Change, etc. etc. Nice, calm and creative names. They have a blog and a podcast. They pitch themselves on Youtube. What does it all mean? To be honest, I'm not sure. I just finished reading "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" and it was good. Better than I expected in this hallowed Irvin Yalom corner of the world where therapy becomes the drama for a book, filled w

Why should a therapist be smart, wise, empathic and CURIOUS? Because we are dealing with individual lives. Lives that are part of the greater society. Lives that MATTER. Right now the collective is the personal. The political is personal. If we don't get some leadership pronto, we will be in this mess for decades to come. So what does our work mean? It means even if you're exhausted, you follow up, ask the questions, wonder what's going on over in that house. One house has l

We all know that panic is painful. Uncomfortable. Hard. Scary. All I have to do is get a scam call from the IRS and I'm jammed all...

I am currently running three groups: teen girls, young adult women and 30-something women. The technology is the easy part. Zoom is...