About Dawn
Dawn Shelley Wann is a licensed professional counselor and licensed mental health counselor in Missouri. She brings 14 years of clinical experience helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. Dawn works with adults and adolescents to build practical skills for daily life.
She uses straightforward, respectful conversation to help people feel heard and understood. She focuses on real problems like relationship strain, parenting pressures, anger, and intimacy-related concerns.
Background and approach
Dawn also helps with attention differences, coping with life changes, and burnout from caregiving or helping roles. Her background includes work with people facing attachment and abandonment issues, body image concerns, and dissociation. Dawn draws on several therapy approaches to match each person's needs.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her approach for shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused and client-centered practices to support emotion regulation and stronger connections.
Her Missouri LPC and Washington LMHC credentials reflect more than a decade of clinical practice. Dawn emphasizes collaboration - she listens first, then helps design doable goals and steps. Sessions can be practical exercises, skill-building, or space to process feelings, depending on what a person needs.
Beginning therapy with Dawn usually starts with a short intake and a conversation about priorities. She aims to make each session useful and attainable, with techniques people can try between meetings.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values, even when anxiety or difficult thoughts show up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to change how problems feel and affect daily life. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships, which can be useful for anger, mood swings, and stress.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences. Together they decide which approach or blend of methods fits best and adjust plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work for deeper conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get support between sessions or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats help fit therapy into busy days and different routines, while keeping the focus on useful tools and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Washington
- Languages
- English
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