Dawne Velianoff
Practical support for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Dawne
Dawne Velianoff is a licensed master social worker with 15 years of professional experience. She offers behavioral health and life coaching support with a practical, person-centered focus. Dawne meets people where they are and helps them build realistic steps to manage stress, mood, and daily challenges.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions often include clear goal-setting, skill practice, and review of what worked between meetings. Dawne draws on techniques like motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral tools to help clients change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
She looks at how different parts of life connect - work, relationships, health, and routines - to spot sources of strain. That systems perspective helps identify risk factors for emotional or social decline and points to concrete changes that can stabilize daily life.
Dawne supports a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, grief, parenting challenges, and coping with life changes. She also brings experience with issues such as body image, caregiver stress, ADHD, intimacy concerns, and trauma-related problems. Practice is based in Michigan and sessions are provided in English.
Dawne describes therapy as teamwork with clear steps and practical techniques so people can try things between sessions and track progress.
Practical therapy approaches adapted for online care
Dawne commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in sessions. ACT focuses on clarifying values and taking committed actions toward them while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when life changes or persistent worries make everyday choices feel harder. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches concrete skills to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. This approach is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dawne collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most, so therapy stays practical and focused on real-life change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities. They also allow for short check-ins, skill reminders, and flexible scheduling so people can keep momentum between sessions.
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
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
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