Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
How Donna works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New Jersey, New York
- Years in practice
- 35
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Donna
Donna Ray is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people manage strong emotions, including anger, and supports those facing anxiety, depression, addiction, and major life changes. She keeps sessions straightforward and practical.
Clients can expect clear goals, skills to try between meetings, and a calm space to talk about what’s most pressing. She emphasizes building better communication and coping skills for daily life.
Background and approach
Donna draws on a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She uses attachment-focused ideas to look at relationship patterns. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills to manage intense feelings.
Her background includes long experience with grief, trauma and abuse, caregiver stress, and medical issues like cancer. She has worked with people facing addiction, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and the fallout from divorce or separation. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, so people can pick what fits their schedule.
Donna works in English and practices from New Jersey as a New York and New Jersey LCSW. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair someone with her, and scheduling is set after that step. Fees vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What Donna works with
Everything Donna lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Donna's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Donna lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online care
Donna uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early and current relationships shape emotional responses. This approach helps when patterns of closeness or distance cause repeated conflict or pain. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and everyday stress.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Donna will talk with each person about goals, previous experiences with therapy, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to focus on relationship patterns, thought work, emotion regulation skills, or a mix of methods based on the persons needs and preferences.
Online therapy with Donna is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people have a fuller conversation and read nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is an issue or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, coaching between sessions, or for people who communicate better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work when travel or schedules change.
Questions people ask about Donna
What concerns does she address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addiction, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy struggles, and life changes.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and collaborative, using skills-based work and talk therapy to set goals and try techniques between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
Donna has 35 years of clinical experience working with mood disorders, trauma, caregiver stress, and addiction-related concerns.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - licensed in New York and New Jersey and practices in New Jersey.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match personal needs.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.