Donice Holbrook, LCSW

Licensed in California · 20 years in practice

Donice Holbrook is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, bipolar disorder, and depression.

License and registration

LCSW, California: 25597 · expires March 2027
NPI: 1295906188 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 20
Languages: English

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About Donice

Donice Holbrook is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, bipolar disorder, and depression. She focuses on practical support for everyday struggles and emotional overwhelm. Donice creates a calm space where people can talk through what matters most to them.

She helps people build coping skills for panic attacks, social anxiety, and obsessive thoughts. She also supports those dealing with self-harm urges, low self-esteem, and the fallout of substance misuse.

Background and approach

Donice offers steady guidance for people navigating adoption and foster care concerns, aging and geriatric issues, cancer, and chronic health challenges. Her work includes attention to communication problems, money and financial stress, and the impact of domestic violence and HIV/AIDS on emotional wellbeing. She provides support around hospice and end-of-life concerns and helps people manage co-morbid conditions that complicate recovery.

Her approach attends to both immediate coping and longer-term adjustment. Donice describes her perspective as culturally aware and Christian-informed, and she aims to respect each person’s values and beliefs. She favors clear, direct conversation and concrete tools that people can use between sessions.

The goal is steady progress, not quick fixes. Based in California, Donice brings clinical experience and a practical focus to sessions. As an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - she draws on two decades of practice to help people find workable strategies and renewed confidence.

Focus areas and approaches

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Online support

Evidence-based techniques and online care

Donice uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize practical skills and symptom relief. Cognitive approaches help identify unhelpful thought patterns and teach ways to shift thinking, which can reduce anxiety and depression symptoms and make everyday tasks easier.

Behavioral strategies focus on small, manageable steps to change habits. These techniques are useful for panic attacks, obsessive behaviors, and for rebuilding routine after substance misuse. They help people practice new responses until those responses feel natural.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and personal beliefs. The plan can be adjusted over time as progress and preferences become clearer.

Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are low-bandwidth and good for quick check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit into busy days or provide shorter, focused support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules without long commutes.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Donice help with?

She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, and self-esteem difficulties. Additional focus areas include panic and OCD symptoms, social anxiety, self-harm, and chronic health related issues.

What is her therapeutic style like?

The approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions emphasize clear conversation, coping skills, and tools clients can use between meetings.

How much clinical experience does she have?

Donice has twenty years of clinical experience working with a range of emotional and life challenges. That background informs her steady, practical approach.

What credential does she hold and where is she based?

She is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker, licensed in California. Her practice is located in California.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How does pricing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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