Our Team
Our Team
Donna Lombardi
Donna Lombardi
Donna Lombardi
Our Team
Donna Lombardi
Our Team
Donna Lombardi is an AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) Professional Horseman, with over 35 years of experience training, riding, and working with horses. Donna has managed barns with over 40 horses, and has devoted her life to nurturing and taking care of her horses.
Her love and care for the horses has been the driving force of her success in the many competitions she has won, including winning Top Ten Riders 29 times as well as many other championships. Donnas has built a career teaching, training and coaching people on interaction with horses, and has developed high standards and a strong emphasis on natural horsemanship.
Donna teaches with relaxed and professional atmosphere. Her students have been champions and top ten at the Quarter Horse Congress, qualified for the Congress youth team, youth world championship and multiple circuit championships.
As part of her ongoing learning, she has studied “The power of the herd” theory and “Touched By a Horse” Soulfulness Theory. Donna continues to study “Healing with Horses in Treatment of Trauma”, and has thousands of hours of experience working with kids and adults to develop their personal growth through their interaction with horses.
Donna Lombardi is an AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) Professional Horseman, with over 35 years of experience training, riding, and working with horses. Donna has managed barns with over 40 horses, and has devoted her life to nurturing and taking care of her horses.
Her love and care for the horses has been the driving force of her success in the many competitions she has won, including winning Top Ten Riders 29 times as well as many other championships. Donnas has built a career teaching, training and coaching people on interaction with horses, and has developed high standards and a strong emphasis on natural horsemanship.
Donna teaches with relaxed and professional atmosphere. Her students have been champions and top ten at the Quarter Horse Congress, qualified for the Congress youth team, youth world championship and multiple circuit championships.
As part of her ongoing learning, she has studied “The power of the herd” theory and “Touched By a Horse” Soulfulness Theory. Donna continues to study “Healing with Horses in Treatment of Trauma”, and has thousands of hours of experience working with kids and adults to develop their personal growth through their interaction with horses.
Donna Lombardi is an AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) Professional Horseman, with over 35 years of experience training, riding, and working with horses. Donna has managed barns with over 40 horses, and has devoted her life to nurturing and taking care of her horses.
Her love and care for the horses has been the driving force of her success in the many competitions she has won, including winning Top Ten Riders 29 times as well as many other championships. Donnas has built a career teaching, training and coaching people on interaction with horses, and has developed high standards and a strong emphasis on natural horsemanship.
Donna teaches with relaxed and professional atmosphere. Her students have been champions and top ten at the Quarter Horse Congress, qualified for the Congress youth team, youth world championship and multiple circuit championships.
As part of her ongoing learning, she has studied “The power of the herd” theory and “Touched By a Horse” Soulfulness Theory. Donna continues to study “Healing with Horses in Treatment of Trauma”, and has thousands of hours of experience working with kids and adults to develop their personal growth through their interaction with horses.
Donna Lombardi is an AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) Professional Horseman, with over 35 years of experience training, riding, and working with horses. Donna has managed barns with over 40 horses, and has devoted her life to nurturing and taking care of her horses.
Her love and care for the horses has been the driving force of her success in the many competitions she has won, including winning Top Ten Riders 29 times as well as many other championships. Donnas has built a career teaching, training and coaching people on interaction with horses, and has developed high standards and a strong emphasis on natural horsemanship.
Donna teaches with relaxed and professional atmosphere. Her students have been champions and top ten at the Quarter Horse Congress, qualified for the Congress youth team, youth world championship and multiple circuit championships.
As part of her ongoing learning, she has studied “The power of the herd” theory and “Touched By a Horse” Soulfulness Theory. Donna continues to study “Healing with Horses in Treatment of Trauma”, and has thousands of hours of experience working with kids and adults to develop their personal growth through their interaction with horses.
Tel: 917-725-0884
About Me
As a relational analyst, I believe that meaningful therapy begins with being deeply seen and understood at two levels: as an individual (uniquely you) and as “one of many” – you in relationships with others in your life.
Each of us carries a unique inner world, shaped by our experiences, relationships, memories, hopes, and wounds. At times, we may find ourselves repeating familiar patterns, feeling disconnected, or simply knowing that something needs to change without knowing quite how. Therapy can offer a space to discover what lies beneath the surface.
My approach is grounded in psychoanalytic and Jungian traditions, while remaining practical and goal oriented. I do not believe that healing follows a single formula. For some, words, conversations and understanding open the door. For others, the body, imagination, dreams, symbols, nature, animals, or creative experience may provide a pathway. I therefore offer an integrative and experiential approach that extends beyond traditional talk therapy.
I work with adults, couples and adolescents in my private practice in Bergen County, NJ and offer equine-assisted psychotherapy and leadership development in Sussex County, NJ. I hold an advanced five-year degree in psychoanalysis (PsyA), certified by International Society of Jungian Sandplay Therapy (ISST), and obtained extensive training in trauma treatment, including EMDR and Somatic Experience. I also completed postgraduate training (MSW) from Rutgers University in New Jersey.
My own professional journey has taken me through several worlds. Before becoming a psychotherapist, I spent over a decade working in marketing and technology and earned an MBA from Metropolitan College of New York focusing on entrepreneurship. I also hold a BA with a major in Philosophy. These earlier experiences continue to influence the way I think about people: with curiosity, respect for complexity, and an appreciation for the many forces, both conscious and unconscious, that shape our lives.
I am fluent in English, Hebrew, and Russian, and have a particular appreciation for the richness and complexity that cultural and linguistic differences bring to our sense of belonging and understanding of ourselves.
Ultimately, I see psychotherapy as a shared exploration rather than a process of simply “fixing” what is wrong. It is an opportunity to develop a deeper relationship with yourself, understand the patterns that have shaped your life, and create space for liveliness of something new to emerge.
There is no particular place you need to be before beginning. We begin where you are.
Inna Danieli, LCSW, PsyA, MBA
Specializing in Anxiety & Depression Treatments, Trauma & Couple Therapy
Anxiety
Anxiety is not a feeling, even though we all "feel" it once in a while. Although, hopefully it is not experienced daily (since it could be paralyzing or aggravating), anxiety is a symptom that provides us with an important alert mechanism that "something is off" in our life, and in our psyche.
Couple Therapy
Couple therapy usually promotes communication among spouses. While verbal expression of your inner world seems to be the center of couple therapy for years, it represents only approximately 10% of human communication. How do we communicate then?
Depression
We all heard this word. What does it actually mean to "feel" depressed? What kind of emotions are hidden behind the burdening fatigue, or endless agitation? What is the value of depression and how does that feeling attempt to protect us?
Trauma
We often hear someone ask: "Are you still talking about something that happened 30 years ago? Move on!" There is a reason that people do not move on as quickly as it is expected by others who weren't affected by the event or the relationship. This is one of the signs of a psychological trauma.
Relationships
The quality of our relationships are the very basic condition for our sense of satisfaction in life. Not only do we like to be surrounded by supportive, like-minded people; we simply can not survive alone. How do we improve our relationships?
Adolescent Therapy
The most complicated and conflicted time of human's life is their adolescence. The changes in the brain urge us to adopt risk taking behavior. Have you ever thought that without these changes, no teenager would be able to step into the world and separate from their parents?