Dawn Shelley Wann
Supportive counselor for parents and adults
- Credentials
- LPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri, Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Dawn
Dawn Shelley Wann is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on clear, practical support for parents and adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns. She uses everyday language and calm guidance to help people handle parenting strain, anger, and life changes. Dawn identifies strengths in each person and builds on those strengths during sessions.
With 14 years of experience, Dawn blends several approaches to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts without getting stuck. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and make small, testable changes. Client-Centered principles shape sessions so the person leads the pace and topics.
Dawn has worked with people managing trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and complex grief. She also supports people dealing with attachment and communication problems, blended family questions, and body image or self-esteem struggles. Her background includes work across a range of emotional and behavioral issues.
She holds the LPC credential and the Licensed Mental Health Counselor designation. Dawn is licensed in Missouri and brings practical focus to problem solving during sessions. She offers multiple online formats to fit busy schedules.
Signing up begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works. Dawn aims to help people take steady steps toward clearer thinking, calmer reactions, and better daily functioning.
How specific approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck on them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small changes to reduce distress and improve daily routines. That approach is often useful for anxiety, depression, and anger management. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a trusting, nonjudgmental relationship where the person sets the pace and topics for work in sessions.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Dawn will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest methods that fit. Sessions can blend approaches as needs change, and the therapist checks in regularly to adjust the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to keep therapy part of a busy life. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from home, while phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or when schedules are tight. These formats make it easier to work on parenting challenges, relationship concerns, and everyday stress without added travel time.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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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
Next step
Talk to Dawn
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point