About Luwana
Luwana Dyer is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Maine with 12 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, grief, and ADHD. She also supports concerns around relationships, parenting, body image, and career changes.
She has worked in independent practice and inside schools and Head Start programs. She has also collaborated with the state and court system. Those settings shaped a down-to-earth style that values clear goals and doable steps.
Background and approach
Luwana has experience supporting people after trauma, abuse, and neglect. She helps with loss, fertility and end-of-life concerns, and big life transitions. She has worked with members of the LGBT community and addresses intimacy-related and family-related worries.
Her approach centers on respectful listening and practical planning. Sessions aim to identify what is getting in the way now and to build small, manageable changes. She emphasizes compassion for setbacks and strategies people can try between sessions.
People who come to Luwana often want to feel more steady, handle daily demands with less stress, or make concrete shifts in relationships and routines. She works with each person to set goals and track progress. Her aim is to help people find clearer direction and more manageable days.
Approaches and how online sessions can help
Many clients benefit from evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and practical change. One approach emphasizes building coping skills and problem-solving steps to reduce anxiety and manage day-to-day stressors; it helps people break large problems into doable actions. Another approach centers on processing past loss and trauma by helping people make sense of painful events and develop routines that support recovery and steadier mood.Finding the right blend of methods is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose approaches that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is tracked and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not an option or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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