About Dawn
Dawn Sweeten is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and big life changes. Dawn speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
Dawn sees adults and teens who report feeling overwhelmed by work, caregiving, health challenges, or relationship strain. She listens to each person's story and works with them to set realistic short-term goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, practical steps rather than jargon-heavy explanations. She uses approaches that help people change unhelpful habits and manage strong emotions. Those include cognitive behavior techniques to challenge harmful thinking and skills from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation.
Mindfulness practices and solution-focused tools are woven in when helpful to build daily coping skills. Dawn also pays attention to how family history, adoption or foster care experiences, and caregiving stress shape current struggles. She offers support for issues like abandonment, body image, blended family dynamics, and caregiver burden, and she helps people facing chronic illness or cancer-related emotional needs.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She helps people break problems into steps, practice new skills, and track small wins. The goal is to help each person gain more steady days and clearer options for moving forward.
Approach-based online care tailored to your needs
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience and priorities, helping them feel heard and involved in planning their path forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for regulating intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit those needs. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different routines. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and messaging can support ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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