Kristine Donaldson, LCSW

Kristine Donaldson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on concerns such as depression, anxiety, parenting stress, grief, trauma and abuse, and relationship and family issues. Kristine also addresses work-related strain, compassion fatigue, addictions, and mood concerns including bipolar disorder and seasonal mood changes.

She keeps sessions practical and straightforward. She helps people talk through what feels overwhelming and identifies small, usable steps to reduce stress. Kristine uses methods that help with patterns of thinking, emotional reactions, and distress tied to past events.

Kristine combines cognitive behavioral techniques with emotion-focused work to address how feelings and thoughts interact. She also draws on dialectical behavior strategies to teach coping skills for intense emotions and EMDR for processing distressing memories when appropriate. Mindfulness practices are used to build steady attention and reduce reactivity.

Her approach aims to improve day-to-day functioning. That can mean managing panic, reducing compulsive behaviors, addressing communication problems, or working through guilt and shame. Sessions often focus on specific skills, behavioral experiments, or memory processing steps depending on the concern.

Kristine works in English and practices in Illinois. She notes that therapy involves collaboration - clients set goals and Kristine helps shape the plan. To begin, readers are asked to use the online booking path to complete the matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session.

How her approaches are used in online sessions