Donald Olund

A foundation built across two distinct careers shapes how Donald Olund approaches every client relationship. Before pursuing licensure as a clinical professional counselor, he spent two and a half decades in pastoral ministry, where he developed a reputation for communication that felt personal and precise — audiences frequently remarked that his words seemed crafted specifically for them. That same attentiveness transferred naturally into a private practice setting, where requests for one-on-one counsel steadily grew.

Don owns LifeWork Counseling in Hinsdale, Illinois, and works with individuals, couples, and families navigating negative patterns in the ways they relate and communicate. He holds particular depth in anxiety and mood disorders, adjustment difficulties, career transitions, and the full range of marriage and family concerns — from co-parenting through divorce to rebuilding after infidelity. His work extends to children and teenagers as well as adults, and sessions are available online.

Don has authored Bringing Respect Back: Communicating Without Conflict and lectures at the graduate level, bringing the same relational clarity to academic and workshop settings that clients describe in session: the sense that he genuinely understands them, and that the path forward is within reach.