Donna Marchant-Roof, LCSW

Donna Marchant-Roof is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Virginia with 30 years of clinical experience. She uses a person-centered approach that focuses on the whole person. Donna helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and life transitions. She also supports concerns such as self-esteem, career challenges, parenting, relationship stress, and compassion fatigue.

Donna draws on straightforward, practical methods to set achievable goals. She favors celebrating small wins and building from current strengths. Clients work with her to map clear steps toward change and to add tools that fit everyday life. Her work has included children, teens and adults across a range of concerns over many years.

More recently she has focused on older adults and on life adjustments tied to changing medical needs. That has included supporting hospice and end-of-life concerns, caregiver stress, and grief and loss. Donna has also spent significant time coaching healthcare leaders and professionals moving into leadership roles.

Her clinical approach blends client-centered work with solution-focused and mindfulness techniques. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolkit when practical behavior and thought changes are helpful. She begins by meeting people where they are and then shapes a plan together.

Donna earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Mercy College and a Master of Social Work from Norfolk State University. She has been licensed since 1995 and brings long-term clinical practice to each session.

How these approaches translate to online work

Donna commonly uses client-centered work and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, understanding your priorities, and shaping the work around your needs. It helps when someone wants a supportive space to sort feelings and make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and helps people try practical changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit best based on goals and preferences. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than assuming a single method up front.

Confirm the current session options before booking because specific formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by removing travel time or allowing a quicker check-in during a work break. It can also let someone use voice-only sessions if that feels simpler, or brief focused meetings to work on a single concern without a longer commute. Licensed professionals aim to shape session length and pacing to what works for each person.