Donna Khan, LMSW

Donna Khan, LMSW, brings over 30 years of experience to her therapeutic work. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and midlife transitions. Donna listens first, then helps clients find steps they can try right away.

Donna trained in social work at Wayne State University and has worked in both inpatient medical social work and outpatient clinic settings. That range of experience informs a steady, flexible approach when clients are managing grief, addiction concerns, or chronic stress. She aims to make sessions straightforward and useful.

Her approach blends client-centered care with skills-based methods. Donna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and Attachment-Based ideas for improving close relationships.

Donna helps people untangle recurring problems like communication breakdowns, codependency, and career and life changes. She also supports those coping with trauma, caregiver strain, sleep and eating concerns, and issues related to identity and intimacy. Practical tools and small experiments are common in her work.

Clients can expect a respectful, paced relationship that focuses on their goals. She emphasizes building coping skills and realistic plans rather than quick fixes. Donna is based in Michigan and works with people who want guided, skill-focused help as they navigate life’s challenges.

How Donna’s approaches translate to online work

Donna uses Client-Centered Therapy to ground sessions in the client’s priorities and values, creating space to talk and to choose which problems to tackle first. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify patterns of thinking and behavior and then tests simple changes that can reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Donna will discuss options and try a few methods to see what fits the person’s goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape a plan of skills and small experiments to practice between meetings.

The therapist’s biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm available session types before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and reduce the need to travel to appointments. Licensed professionals, including Donna, adapt exercises and skill practice to whichever session format is arranged so therapy can be integrated into daily life.