About Dawn
Dawn Ogle is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Oregon who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She draws on 13 years of clinical experience and a background that includes work in recovery, victims' services, and dual-diagnosis care. Dawn presents herself as warm and nonjudgmental in sessions and aims to help people move toward more joy and fulfillment.
She focuses on concerns such as stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, and anger.
Background and approach
Dawn also addresses related issues like communication problems, guilt and shame, co-morbidity, self-love, polyamory and non-monogamous relationship questions, and women's issues. Her approach is grounded in listening and helping people identify steps they can try between sessions. Dawn uses client-centered methods that put the person's experience and choices at the center of work together.
She also applies trauma-focused strategies to help people process and lessen the hold of past harm. In practice this means sessions that combine listening, safety-building, and gradual coping skills practice. She has taught at community college and university programs, which informs her clear, straightforward way of explaining things.
Outside work Dawn enjoys camping, crafting, Native American drumming and singing, rock hounding, tending house plants, travel, and jamming with friends. Her style is encouraging and practical. Dawn invites people to let go of what isn't working and try new ways of living that allow more happiness.
She supports people as they set goals and take small, steady steps toward them.
Approaches to anxiety and trauma in online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and choices. It means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the person identify goals and next steps that feel meaningful. This approach is often useful for stress, anxiety, self-esteem, and relationship questions.Trauma-focused therapy centers on safely addressing the impact of past harm. It involves building coping skills, creating a sense of safety in sessions, and gently working through distressing memories and reactions. This approach can help when trauma or abuse contributes to anxiety, shame, or problems with addiction.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and help decide which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and may shift as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and seeing nonverbal cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options can make scheduling easier, allow therapy during work breaks or travel, and provide multiple ways to stay connected to care.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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