PMHNP, 18 years of experience
Dr. Donald is a Board-Certified Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and an ADD/ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider. Dr. Donald has extensive experience working in a wide range of practice settings, including private practice, community mental health, correctional services, and addiction medicine. Dr. Donald's clinical experiences have equipped her with the needed skillset to provide holistic, quality, individualized, evidence-based care. Her overarching goal is to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with her clients to achieve and sustain overall mental and physical wellness to become their BEST selves. I strongly believe the mind and body are interrelated, and therefore, must work together in harmony. I look forward to working with you and together, finding your desired level of optimum health both mentally and physically. Through therapy and prescriptive measures, it can be obtained as well as maintained. Together, our goal will be for you to achieve a level of increased satisfaction with life that manifests itself daily. I look forward to your future visit and the opportunity to serve you.
In our first session you can expect setting collaborative treatment goals. The discussion of the experiences and expectations and barriers to previous treatment of the client.
My biggest strengths are excellent communication skills to manage a wide range of relationships with colleagues, and patients and their families, emotional resilience, a calm temperament and the ability to work well under pressure. I work collaboratively with others, foster teams and can lead multidisciplinary teams. problem-solving and diagnostic skills.
ADD/ADHD, Men's Issues and Sexual Dysfunction, Weight Loss
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a structured, goal-oriented type of talk therapy. It can help manage mental health conditions, such as depression and anxiety.
Gender Affirming Therapy is a therapeutic stance that focuses on affirming a patient's gender identity and does not try to “repair” it.