About Dawn
Dawn Shelley Wann is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Missouri. She brings 14 years of counseling experience and a straightforward, caring approach to sessions. Dawn aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related struggles.
She also supports those facing trauma, parenting challenges, mood concerns, and ADHD-related difficulties. In sessions she listens first and asks practical questions to clarify what is most pressing.
Background and approach
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and build different coping skills. She also draws on acceptance and commitment methods to help people live by their values even when symptoms are present. Dawn uses client-centered methods to shape therapy around each person's pace and goals.
She can teach emotion regulation skills from dialectical behavior therapy when intense emotions make daily life harder. Therapy conversations focus on concrete steps you can try between appointments. Her background includes work with people coping with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and major life transitions.
She has experience addressing mood disorders such as bipolar conditions, anger issues, and attachment difficulties. Dawn aims to create a calm, practical space to try changes and track progress. She offers sessions in English and provides several online formats, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire connects you to scheduling options that fit your needs.
Practical approaches for online therapy and skill building
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name their values and take small steps toward them even when anxiety or worry is present. It focuses on actions you can try that matter to you rather than only reducing symptoms. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches skills to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, low mood, and many everyday problems.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what is helpful. Clients and the therapist work together to pick strategies that match the person's needs, pace, and preferences over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a good option when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can be used for brief updates, skill coaching between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. Together these options make it easier to fit regular work on goals into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Washington
- Languages
- English
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