About Dawn
Dawn Manton is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety and the impact of trauma. She supports people coping with grief, low self-esteem, depression and addictions. She also works with concerns around relationships, parenting, career pressures and major life changes.
Dawn brings a calm, interactive manner to sessions and aims to make it easier to talk about difficult topics. She spent around a decade working in the NHS and in independent practice, gaining experience in a range of common mental health issues.
Background and approach
That background gives her familiarity with everyday pressures and complex situations such as domestic violence, bereavement and long-term illness. She uses practical, evidence-based approaches tailored to each person. Sessions focus on building a trusting relationship and helping people understand their feelings and reactions.
Dawn offers a relaxed space to reflect, work through painful memories and try new ways of coping. She emphasises collaboration and helps set small, achievable goals between meetings. People may come for help with specific problems such as addiction, eating concerns, body image or anger.
Others seek support for broader patterns such as codependency, abandonment or difficulty communicating. Dawn can also support those facing cancer, chronic pain, caring responsibilities or ageing-related worries. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often shortened to BACP.
Sessions are offered in English and are provided online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging as described on the booking page.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Many of Dawn's sessions use evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on understanding thoughts and feelings and building practical skills. One common approach helps people notice patterns of thinking that increase anxiety or low mood, then try new ways of responding to those thoughts to reduce distress. This can be useful for stress, anxiety and depression.Another approach emphasises processing difficult experiences and developing coping skills after trauma or loss. It supports people to tell their story at a pace that feels manageable and to build strategies for handling triggers and strong emotions. This method can help with grief, trauma, dissociation and long-term stress.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Dawn will collaborate with each person to identify goals and trial approaches that fit their needs and preferences. She reviews progress and adapts plans so the therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are close to face-to-face conversation and allow visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat or text messaging works for short check-ins, written reflection and people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and travel.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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