Donna Camerota, LCSW

Donna Camerota is a licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut with more than two decades of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and the ups and downs that come with major life changes. Donna pays attention to how mood, relationships, and health intersect in daily life.

Her work often centers on midlife concerns and transitions, including shifts in identity, career, and caregiving roles. She also supports people facing body image issues, chronic illness, mood disorders, and addiction-related struggles. Donna aims to make sessions practical and focused on what matters most to each person.

Donna uses a warm, client-centered style that starts with listening and understanding each person’s story. She helps clients build self-compassion and better communication skills. Together they identify patterns that get in the way and try out new ways of coping.

Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral techniques to address negative thinking and behavior patterns, dialectical skills for emotion regulation, and solution-focused methods for short-term goals. Motivational interviewing helps when people are unsure about change or feel stuck.

Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Donna works at a pace that fits the individual, balancing practical steps with emotional processing. She aims to help people leave sessions with a clearer plan and small, achievable next steps.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a supportive relationship. It helps people feel heard and understood while they sort out what matters most in their lives. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms such as anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Donna will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best for their goals and situation. She begins by asking about what the client wants to change and then tries short, practical steps to see what helps.

Confirm the therapist’s current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so clients can use a break at work or handle caregiving duties more easily. It can also let people try different approaches without committing to a long plan up front, helping them find what works in real life.