About Dawn
Dawn Mumaw is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Wisconsin. She brings eight years of experience helping people face stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and shifts in life direction. She keeps sessions straightforward and down to earth.
Dawn aims to make people feel heard and safe enough to talk about hard things. She uses practical tools and moments of lightness so hard work doesn’t feel overwhelming. Dawn draws on client-centered work to follow each person’s pace.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness and solution-focused methods to teach coping skills and small steps that add up. Motivational interviewing helps people build momentum when they feel stuck. Her background includes helping people with trauma and substance use concerns, relationship and family problems, career stress, caregiver strain, and identity issues including LGBT topics.
She also supports people managing ADHD, compassion fatigue, and co-occurring conditions. Sessions can address specific problems like communication or codependency, or broader struggles such as abandonment, divorce, or feeling empty. Dawn blends listening with practical strategies so clients leave with clear next steps.
She offers phone and video sessions as well as live chat and text-based messaging. Dawn works with people in Wisconsin and conducts sessions in English.
Using proven approaches in online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the person’s lead. The therapist creates space for someone to share what matters most and helps them decide what to work on next. This approach suits people who want support that respects their pace and priorities.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple ways to notice thoughts and body sensations without getting swept away by them. It can help when stress, anxiety, or strong emotions keep getting in the way of daily life. Motivational interviewing is a short-term approach that helps someone find their own reasons to change and build momentum toward goals like reducing substance use or making career shifts.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to figure out which approaches match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process is used to set clear, practical steps that can be tried between sessions.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls fit lower-bandwidth situations, chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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