Donna Maso, LCSW

Donna Maso is a licensed clinical social worker with 31 years of experience helping people navigate relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, and anger. She works with clients across many life stages and helps with practical steps to manage stress and conflict. Donna emphasizes a calm, strengths-focused approach that aims to make everyday life more manageable.

Her background spans outpatient, inpatient, transitional, and crisis services. She has supported people in shelters, hotlines, courts, schools, correctional settings, and hospice care. That work brought experience with children diagnosed with AD/HD, survivors of abuse, veterans' families, and people facing chronic or terminal conditions.

Donna uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on client-centered methods to center the person's goals, cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness skills to build present-moment coping. Solution-focused techniques help set clear, achievable steps for change.

In sessions she aims to be practical and direct. Clients can expect a focus on strengths, clear tools to try between meetings, and gradual work toward better daily routines and relationships. Donna also brings experience with caregiver stress, blended family issues, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and aging and geriatric issues.

Her practice style is warm and straightforward. She invites collaboration and asks clients to be part of planning goals and steps. To begin, she recommends a simple initial conversation to match goals and preferences before scheduling further work.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Donna uses client-centered therapy to keep each conversation focused on the person’s goals and preferences. That approach means sessions start with the client's concerns and priorities, and the therapist guides rather than directs change.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the thoughts and behaviors that maintain distress and offers concrete strategies to shift them. CBT is helpful for relationship conflict, anxiety, anger, and grief-related patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy contributes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help with intense emotions and interpersonal challenges.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Donna will work with each person to try methods that fit their situation and adjust as progress is made. Clients help set goals, choose practices, and evaluate what works best during follow-ups.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm current session formats before booking since specific formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people use skills learned in session in their typical daily routines. Licensed professionals can tailor pacing and homework to fit a person's rhythm and responsibilities.