Psychotherapy, Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Supervision
Making healing connections through my commitment to emotional understanding.
Mission & Values
Commitment to Healing Relationships
I work with principles of care, responsibility, and deep empathic attunement.
We find otherwise hidden existential issues and feel the way through them.

My Relational Psychotherapy Approach
Are you feeling unsettled about things, anxious, experiencing depression or struggling with sleeplessness? Depression can occur when events or life have not been fully responded to at important times of their life. It can also occur if someone needs help with a recent loss or painful experience. Meanwhile, anxiety often relates to a current stress which brings up existential threats and/or deeper feelings that need exploration.
Although frightening to start the exploration itself, the difference of having a fellow traveler with you in kinship of painful experiences brings about a wholeness and understanding. Common approaches to trauma, depression and anxiety can help someone cope on a moment-to-moment basis, layers of knowledge that relate to experiences of separations, loss and significant relationships have met someone’s important needs still necessitate a healing process. While grounded in a career of experience working in mental health, addictions and industry, my specific way of working helps you in tough moments while focusing on deep needs for empathy throughout human development.
Sometimes, people start talking and find that they gradually have more to look at or weigh what they are truly wanting to feel from a behavior.Some people are directed to behavioral approaches upon finding themselves in disequilibrium. These approaches provide concrete directions to dealing with particular mental health issues. At the same time that I have worked with these techniques, I also deeply understand and help you uncover more of what you are going through with depression, anxiety, trauma or triggers as well as a deeper understanding around other relationship, eating issues or alcohol and drug use.
As a relational therapist, I keenly listen and find ways to connect deep feelings and meanings, which are not readily or preferably at the attention for many. I believe in this, as I have been able to give a home to difficulties and feelings, clear up misunderstandings or confusions and make sharp differences in managing through people’s distress.
IIf you would like to gain a different understandings that can result in feeling more connected, then I can help you find new aspects and important meanings in your experiences. A deeper understanding can help bring you to a different way of feeling and being more connected to the world.

ABOUT
Donna Wolfskehl DiStefano
I offer a supportive and deeply understanding environment to both get through and start healing your depression, anxiety or relationship concerns.
This help to expand understanding of your suffering from trauma, life events other difficulties in work, family or identity-impacting situations..
Looking for In-House Supervision for Your Programs
Support transformation in your clients’ lives and address challenging issues.
Professional Offerings
In the Intersubjective process, listening for deeper meanings.helps to understand where experiences tie to one another and affect depression. anxiety and other mental health complaints.

Individual Psychotherapy
I specialize in Trauma, Addiction, Depression, Relationship Issues, Identity Issues and Anxiety.
I see individuals and families.
Fee: $175 Per Session

Supervision Groups for MSW and Counseling Graduates
Receive guidance from trained and experienced therapist. Give feedback that that improves clients’ relating to their experience.
Small Groups starting in June 2025.

Early Career Therapist Group
Gain ability for deep attunement to your direct experiences. Develop a supportive and emotionally attuned peer environment. Value is in finding patterns and enhancing authenticity . Support experience of beginning as a therapist or counselor.
Thursdays (time TBA)
Real Change Can Happen.
Start your process
Ready to take the next step? Explore our Services and get in touch today for a consultation..
New Office Location: @ 190 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542
CHECK OUT THESE HELPFUL LINKS BY CLICKING ON THE TOPICS:
- Information on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approaches (through the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology)
https://www.iapsp.org/contempory_self_psychology.php - Donna’s YouTube Channel: Learn more about contemporary ideas in psychotherapy https://www.youtube.com/@HighlandParkLCSW
- Social Work Podcast on Grief (through NASW): https://www.socialworkers.org/News/Social-Work-Talks-Podcast/EP69-Superheroes-and-Grief
- Wellness Podcast about Mental Health and approaching problems with understanding: https://khns.org/podcast/wellness-talk-9-15-25/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPOswZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeMmfZ42TFp1nIWSTrpMvTKKzy83vWnpqcNDZeAXbH6FjZzLVYwIkx9ZTomVc_aem_qKJUGxcJVYmnQjJ1hz6Cfg
- Facebook: Donna Wolfskehl DiStefano MSW, LCSW, LCADC’s list of Newsletters. https://www.facebook.com/donna.distefanolcswlcadc

