About Dashon
Dashon Mcnelley, LPC, works with people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, and major life changes. She aims to make the first steps toward help clear and manageable. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, which can help someone who is worried or unsure about therapy.
She focuses on practical skills for coping. Sessions often include building routines for managing panic, practicing communication skills, and exploring self-worth. Dashon pays attention to how day-to-day habits and relationships affect mood and functioning.
Background and approach
Dashon uses several approaches to guide work in therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for emotional regulation and tolerating distress.
Client-Centered Therapy keeps the conversation grounded in what matters most to the individual. Her background includes five years of clinical experience in Alabama as a licensed professional counselor. Dashon has worked with people facing trauma, grief, addictions, ADHD concerns, and relationship problems.
She also addresses areas like body image, caregiver stress, and parenting strain. In early sessions she helps people set clear goals and pick concrete steps to try between meetings. She emphasizes collaboration so each person shapes their plan.
The aim is not quick fixes but steady progress toward greater calm and clearer decision making.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what the individual feels is most important, helping people clarify values and goals and build confidence in their own choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete exercises to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skill-building for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without making things worse.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Dashon will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That means trying an approach and adjusting it over time so the sessions stay useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people talk face to face when they prefer conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when lower bandwidth or not being on camera helps. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, shorter updates, or people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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