Consulting, Coaching & Mentoring
Executive and Professional Consultation
In the current competitive business climate, experienced professionals can benefit from learning how to effectively manage their teams and assert their authority, while maintaining a sense of togetherness and shared meaning and goals with staff members. Through a series of brief consultations and assessments, Dr. Donahue is able to provide his clients with a clear sense of their interpersonal strengths and vulnerabilities, and the areas to address to enhance their effectiveness as leaders and managers. He also helps senior executives to carefully assess their own goals, both personal and professional, and offers advice and strategy for those considering new or expanded career paths. This work always includes steps to help clients manage and reduce their stress, and to find the right balance of work and family life.
Coaching
For successful and well-adjusted people, who feel capable and in control in many aspects of their lives, the chance to speak openly with someone about short-term dilemmas, personal struggles, relationship issues or career moves can be a welcome relief. They may not need a regular, weekly appointment, but would like to share their stories and receive guidance from an experienced clinician who can give straightforward, clear advice to help them move forward. Dr. Donahue has decades of experience providing counsel to young professionals who are starting to make their way in the world and develop meaningful intimate relationships. He has also worked extensively with working parents who are looking to define their roles in the office and at home, so that they can remain committed to their careers and connected with their children and spouses.
Professional Mentoring
Senior educational administrators, medical providers and mental health professionals often find themselves with a puzzling dilemma: Who should they go to when they need help? Whether it’s dealing with trauma, managing stress, supervising staff, or providing treatment in a particularly complicated case, we all have moments when going it alone is not an option.
Dr. Donahue is available to provide consultation and ongoing support for professional colleagues in New York and across the country. These consultations usually entail the following:
- Detailed assessment of the immediate problem
- Mechanisms for providing staff support and stress reduction
- Review of resources currently in place and under consideration
- Examination of parent and family involvement
- Strategy sessions to explore treatment and educational options
Child Development Consulting
Dr. Donahue’s wide-ranging expertise in early childhood development, adolescence and family dynamics has helped him become a leading consultant to school districts, state and federal agencies, academic researchers, policy makers and media organizations.
His interests include:
- Reducing the impact of stress and trauma on children, families and schools
- Promoting social and emotional development in early childhood education
- Understanding and managing new technologies and risky behaviors in adolescence
- Focusing on ethics, compassion and citizenship in elementary, middle and high schools
- Re-focusing children’s mental health on wellness, resilience and family cohesion