About Dawn
Dawn Maria Spradley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship concerns, and ADHD. Dawn aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk about hard feelings and begin to make changes.
Dawn uses straightforward, empathetic listening to understand what matters to each person. She draws on client-centered ideas to follow the client's pace and priorities.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. Sessions move at a practical pace. Dawn helps people build clearer routines, reduce overwhelm, and practice skills for managing strong emotions.
She also works with issues tied to attachment, self-esteem, codependency, and caregiver stress. Conversations include setting small goals and checking progress from week to week. People often bring life transitions, chronic health stress, or grief to therapy.
Dawn supports exploration of those losses and the patterns that keep them stuck. She includes attention to identity and LGBT-related concerns when helpful to the person in front of her. Dawn has five years of professional experience as an LPC in Texas.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and an initial session is scheduled based on availability.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Dawn commonly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies and attachment-focused ideas. Client-centered therapy means the conversation follows the person's concerns and goals, with the therapist listening attentively and reflecting what’s said; this helps people feel heard and decide what change matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that add to distress and testing small, practical alternatives to reduce anxiety or depressive patterns. Attachment-based approaches look at how early and current relationship patterns shape reactions and help people try new ways of connecting or setting boundaries.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Dawn will talk with each person about goals, what has worked before, and their preferences. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust the plan as progress is tracked and new concerns come up.
Online therapy with Dawn is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can pick what works for them. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, or when scheduling needs flexibility. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or medical appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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