About Dawn
Dawn Shelley Wann is a licensed counselor who focuses on practical strategies for everyday struggles. She is an LPC and LMHC with 14 years of experience. Dawn listens first, then helps people build small, usable skills they can try right away.
She prioritizes stress and anxiety, and supports people facing trauma, grief, and depression. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, and managing ADHD symptoms.
Background and approach
Phobias are included among the concerns she addresses when relevant. Dawn combines several therapy styles to match each person’s needs. She uses cognitive and behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns.
She draws on emotion-focused and acceptance-based approaches to help people tolerate difficult feelings and clarify values. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Dawn aims to make complex ideas straightforward so busy or worried parents can use them between sessions.
She encourages small experiments, skill-building, and clear steps toward goals. Her work includes attention to less common issues such as attachment concerns, dissociation, body image, and coping after disasters. She brings a steady, patient approach to people dealing with life transitions, chronic stress, or burnout.
Dawn practices in Missouri and conducts sessions in English.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and adjusting to life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns, which helps with depression, phobias, and anxiety. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers specific skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication; it is often used for anger, intense mood swings, and building distress tolerance.Picking the right approach is part of the work together. Dawn will talk with each person about their goals and daily life, then suggest techniques that fit. She adjusts methods over time so sessions stay useful and aligned with what the client wants to accomplish.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions are a lower-bandwidth option and can be a shorter check-in. Live chat or text-based messaging can suit people who prefer typing or need brief, flexible support during the week. These formats increase accessibility and let people practice skills in real-life settings between meetings.
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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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