About Luwana
Luwana Dyer is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 12 years of experience based in Maine. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and major life changes. She also brings experience around trauma, grief, self-esteem, and concerns that touch relationships and intimacy.
She has practiced in personal settings and in community programs such as schools and Head Start. Her background includes collaborating with state and court systems at times.
Background and approach
Over the years she has worked with adults and children and has supported people connected to the LGBTQ community. In sessions she helps people identify clear goals and small steps that lead to change. Conversations tend to be straightforward and focused on what will help day-to-day functioning.
Practical coping skills, communication tools, and ways to manage strong emotions are common parts of her work. She also assists with longer term concerns like loss, fertility and end of life issues, chronic illness, and recovery from abuse or neglect. When needed she combines short-term strategies with deeper exploration of patterns that cause repeated problems.
Her approach centers on respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She works collaboratively to build a plan that fits each person’s life and goals. Many clients find this combination of practical care and steady support helpful when navigating hard moments and big transitions.
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Many clients benefit from practical, evidence-based techniques that teach skills to manage symptoms and improve daily life. One common approach focuses on learning coping skills and behavioral strategies to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. These are hands-on techniques you can practice between sessions to lower stress and build routine.Another approach emphasizes communication and relationship skills to address intimacy, family concerns, and workplace stress. This work targets patterns that cause repeated friction and helps people try different ways of interacting that feel safer and more effective.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan over time. Clients help shape what is tried and how progress is measured.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes regular care easier to maintain. Video calls are good for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be used when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers writing over speaking.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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