About Dawn
Dawn O'Regan is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. Dawn emphasizes clear communication and building self-worth as starting points for change.
Dawn has worked in community mental health, personal group practice, and her own individual practice. She combines a practical, down-to-earth style with a focus on strengths and solutions. Sessions focus on what the client finds most important and on small, doable steps toward better daily functioning.
Background and approach
Her work draws on a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to look at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy help people notice difficult thoughts and choose values-based actions.
Dawn also uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to support healthier relationships and emotional regulation. She helps people learn concrete skills for managing emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication. The overall goal is more stable mood, clearer thinking, and more satisfying relationships.
Outside of clinical work, Dawn enjoys yoga, hiking, walking, and meditation. She lives in Iowa and travels frequently with her life partner and their two dogs. Her long experience in different settings informs a flexible, collaborative approach to care.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match what matters most. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and problems that recur despite effort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people see links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then practice new ways of thinking and acting to reduce distress. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early connections shape current reactions; it helps people improve communication and build healthier bonds.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time so techniques match progress and shifting priorities.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when schedules allow, phone sessions are an option when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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