About Dashon
Dashon Mcnelley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Alabama who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that can make day-to-day life feel more manageable. Sessions are straightforward and aimed at building skills that can be used between meetings.
Her work emphasizes clear communication and emotional awareness. She uses client-centered methods to make sessions collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs.
How Dashon works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy offer tools for changing unhelpful thoughts and improving emotional regulation. Dashon pays attention to relationship concerns, grief, intimacy issues, and parenting-related strain. She also supports people dealing with addiction, ADHD, anger, self-esteem struggles, and depression.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care issues, blended family tensions, caregiver stress, and coping after disasters. She likes to combine practical skill-building with conversations about meaning and values. Existential ideas help people reconnect with what matters to them.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques are used to strengthen emotional expression and improve important connections. With five years of clinical experience, Dashon aims for clear, steady progress. She helps clients try small changes and then build on what works.
The approach is collaborative, paced to fit each person, and focused on realistic goals.
Dashon lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Dashon works with
The areas below are the ones Dashon selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. In online sessions this means the therapist reflects what the client says and helps shape goals that feel meaningful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to change patterns; online CBT often uses worksheets, behavioral experiments, and homework that can be reviewed during video or messaging sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills; these skills can be practiced in brief check-ins, text-based coaching, or longer video sessions depending on the need.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose and adjust methods based on goals, preferences, and what feels effective. That makes therapy feel more tailored and helps clients try approaches without commitment to a single method.
Online formats offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter call is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use methods that match each person's routine and comfort.
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