Coaching and Consulting Services

Donna Gaines, Ph.D, L.M.S.W, RM/T

Welcome! This is a healing space, a sacred place to grow, create and transform. Most of the tools we need to become strong, healthy and happy are already within us. But where do we begin? A NYS Licensed Master Social Worker and long-time wellness educator and practitioner I offer holistic healing, coaching and consulting that is therapeutic and life-altering. This is a short term individualized program that aims to reconnect you to your own inner power to transform yourself.

Whether you are healing from trauma, addiction, obesity, body-negativity or looking to cultivate more effective health habits, I will work with you in the development of an individualized, life-affirming wellness plan that will help you regenerate yourself– body, spirit and soul.

Now retired, as a SUNY professor in sociology and human services I’ve taught trauma-informed courses in healing through music, spirituality in the helping professions, creativity and healing, spirituality and recovery, advocacy and community organizing. I’ve mentored adult students interested in establishing careers as holistic healers– practitioners, writers, addiction specialists and metaphysics–the study of astrology and tarot. I’ve advised students pursuing vocations in traditional ministry and helping clergy tintegrate social work practice into pastoral care.

But it was through my own recovery from complex childhood trauma, cross-addiction, obesity, grief, body-shame, anxiety and depression that my journey as a “wounded healer” began. In locating the resources and support I needed to feel whole, well and happy, I experienced a profound transformation. I came to love myself, honor my body and to believe the world was a safe place filled with love for each of us, regardless of where we started.

Contact: donna@donnagaines.com. Consultations are available in person, by phone or zoom.