About Dawn
Dawn Madden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who helps people struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports clients facing LGBT concerns and those coping with big life changes. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, aiming to help each person feel more capable in daily life.
Dawn brings 11 years of clinical experience, including substantial work in substance use and trauma-related settings. She emphasizes that clients are the experts on their own stories and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens carefully and helps people find practical steps they can use between visits. Her style blends evidence-informed methods with an empathic, person-centered stance. That means she tailors tools to fit each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Techniques draw from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance strategies, and skills-based work to manage intense feelings and improve coping. Dawn also uses ideas from attachment-focused work to help people understand relationship patterns and from dialectical skills to support emotional regulation. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what the client is ready for.
She aims to make the therapy process understandable and doable for busy, worried people. If someone is ready to try therapy, Dawn offers conversational, goal-oriented sessions that focus on small changes with real impact. She encourages people to notice progress, even when it feels slow, and to build on what already works in their lives.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then pick actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and adjusting to life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. It often includes practical exercises to do between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and communication, which can help with trust, intimacy, and relationship stress.Dawn treats the choice of approach as a team effort. She will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. The focus is on finding a good match rather than committing to one method from the start.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging can support regular short reflections. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, travel days, or a hectic family routine while still using the same therapeutic tools you would in person.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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