Dawn Shelley Wann

Dawn Shelley Wann is a licensed professional counselor with 14 years of clinical experience. She practices in Missouri and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. Dawn centers sessions on the person's strengths and lived experience to guide practical steps forward.

She blends mindfulness-based ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered methods. That mix helps people notice unhelpful patterns, clarify values, and try small changes. Sessions also draw on cognitive behavioral and dialectical skills when a person needs tools for mood and self-regulation.

Dawn has worked with adults, adolescents, and teenagers on issues such as trauma and abuse, anger, parenting strain, and intimacy-related concerns. She also helps people facing bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and major life transitions. Her approach includes coaching elements for people who want concrete strategies alongside emotional work.

People meet a therapist who emphasizes listening first and then building skills together. Dawn encourages short experiments between sessions to test what works in everyday life. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where the client's goals steer the pace and focus.

Her background includes practice with a range of personality and developmental concerns, including attachment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and dissociation. Dawn holds LPC and LMHC credentials and conducts sessions in English. To begin, choose the Start Therapy button and complete the brief matching questionnaire.

How her approaches shape online work

Mindfulness Therapy invites people to notice thoughts and sensations without harsh judgment and to use that awareness to respond differently to stress and anxiety. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and building small, value-driven actions that move them toward those goals. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance where the therapist listens closely and follows the client's priorities.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals and daily life. Sessions are shaped by what the client wants to try, whether that is brief skill practice, values-based experiments, or open conversation about difficult experiences.

Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online care can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people practice skills in the settings where they live and work, then bring observations back to the next appointment for review and adjustment.