Dona Abbinante, LCSW

Dona Abbinante is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California with 31 years of professional experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, parenting challenges, and depression. Her long career has included work with a range of mood and anxiety concerns as well as issues related to divorce and separation, isolation and loneliness, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and women's issues, allowing her to support clients facing diverse emotional challenges.

She approaches care from the perspective that each person is the expert on their own story and already possesses strengths that can be used to move through difficulty. Dona focuses on building on those strengths while offering practical guidance and compassionate support so clients can pursue a more fulfilling and balanced life.

Clients can expect a steady, experienced presence grounded in clinical social work training. As an LCSW, Dona brings decades of practice helping individuals and families develop coping strategies, process loss, manage anxiety, and address parenting and relationship concerns. She encourages the courageous step of seeking help and provides collaborative support throughout the therapeutic process.