About Lawana
Dr. Lawana Mabry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She practices in Louisiana and uses practical, problem-focused methods to help clients make changes that fit their lives.
Dr. Mabry earned a Doctor of Behavioral Health and holds MS LCSW credentials. Her background spans child protection, grief work, medical social work, and school-based services.
She has worked in inpatient psychiatric settings and led an outpatient behavioral health agency as a clinical director across multiple locations in Louisiana.
Background and approach
This range gives her a broad view of how life problems show up in daily routines. Dr. Mabry has provided trauma-focused care for children exposed to severe events, including sexual abuse, domestic violence, and witnessing violent death.
She brings that experience into sessions with adults facing trauma reactions, grief, and high stress. Sessions emphasize meeting people where they are and building small, achievable steps toward goals. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each persons situation, whether the focus is coping with anxiety, managing anger, or handling caregiving strain.
She also supports concerns such as parenting challenges, attachment and abandonment issues, blended family dynamics, body image, and job-related stress. The work often includes skill practice, planning for difficult moments, and reviewing what helps in real life. Dr.
Mabry aims to partner with clients to set clear goals and track progress. She prefers straightforward conversations and practical tools that can be used between sessions.
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Dr. Mabry uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete skills and real-life changes. One common approach she draws on teaches practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breath work, grounding, and stepwise exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. These techniques help people manage worry and regain day-to-day functioning.Another frequent method is trauma-focused work that helps people process painful memories and reduce their impact on current life. This work often includes teaching ways to tolerate strong emotions and practicing new responses in safe settings. Both approaches are goal-oriented and emphasize skills people can use between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That means clients have a say in pacing, techniques, and the focus of sessions.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit care into busy schedules. Video is useful for a full session when face-to-face interaction matters, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging or live chat can work for brief check-ins or skills coaching between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people maintain continuity of care when life gets busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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