About Dawn
Dawn Shelley Wann uses collaborative, skills-based therapy to help people manage strong emotions and life changes. She is a licensed professional counselor - LPC - with additional licensure as an LMHC and brings 14 years of experience working with adults and teens. Dawn focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship and intimacy concerns.
She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build practical skills for coping and clearer ways to communicate needs. Her style blends acceptance and commitment ideas with client-centered listening and cognitive strategies. Dawn draws on techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally focused work to help people regulate emotions and repair relational patterns.
She emphasizes small, doable steps and tailoring tools to each person's life. Clients can expect a direct but compassionate approach. Dawn helps people notice values, practice new behaviors, and test what works outside of sessions.
She treats each person as the expert on their story and builds on existing strengths. Work is offered remotely to people in Missouri. Dawn invites those ready to begin to use the site Start Therapy flow to match and schedule a first session.
She aims to make the process straightforward and respectful of each person's pace.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. ACT focuses on identifying values and taking small actions that match those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects understanding, and helps people feel heard while they consider change.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they test techniques and adjust the plan so sessions match real-life needs and strengths.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video offers face-to-face interaction for skill practice and emotion work, phone can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging lets people check in between sessions or use brief coaching-style exchanges. These options make therapy more flexible for work schedules, caregiving, or when someone needs shorter or more frequent touchpoints.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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