Nuview Psychological Services

Donae Gustafson is a Minnesota Licensed Clinical Psychologist and a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.

Her special interests are individual, couple and family psychotherapy; mind-body, cognitive behavior and marriage therapies; anxiety management, depression, grief and loss, health psychology, integrated care in coping with health-related conditions, women's issues, organizational stress and fostering resiliency in self, work and social relationships.

Consistency is the key to helping ADHD children. They are really poor at dealing with change, even if it is positive change. They need to have a sense of external structure, as they tend to lack a sense of internal structure. When working with a person with ADHD you may feel frustrated. Don't take their behavior as personally directed, because it isn't in most cases.

Probably the most common psychological disorder is depression. Depression has different forms, including a mild mood disturbance, to the more serious major depression and bi-polar disorder. Clinical depression is not something you can just "snap out of." It is caused by an imbalance of brain chemicals, along with other factors.

Your family can be your greatest source of support, comfort and love. But it can also be your greatest source of pain and grief. A health crisis, work problems or teenage rebellion may threaten to tear your family apart. Family therapy is often short term. You usually attend one session a week, typically for three to five months.

When we experience a significant loss in our lives, we grieve. Grief can be emotionally and physically draining; it consumes a tremendous amount of energy. It is also a necessary process, the link between loss and moving forward. We may grieve not just for people who have died, but also for social losses, such as divorce, job loss, and life-altering illnesses or injuries.