About Dawn
Dawn Adler is a licensed social worker practicing in Ohio. She holds LCSW and LISW credentials and brings six years of clinical experience to her work. Dawn focuses on giving clear, practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship struggles, and grief.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Dawn also uses Client-Centered methods to listen closely and build on each person’s strengths.
How Dawn works
Mindfulness and Solution-Focused ideas are part of her toolbox for coping skills and short-term goal work. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal oriented. Dawn helps people break big problems into small steps they can try between meetings.
She encourages realistic activities, thought experiments, and communication practice when appropriate. People often bring concerns such as sleeping trouble, career stress, intimacy issues, or caregiver burnout. Dawn also supports work around trauma and abuse, attachment and abandonment worries, body image, codependency, and substance-related problems.
Her approach blends practical techniques with attention to emotional experience. If someone prefers working remotely, Dawn offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She accepts international clients who speak English and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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What Dawn works with
The areas below are the ones Dawn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapy approaches shape online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes empathy, building trust, and following what matters most to the client. This helps when someone needs space to talk through feelings and decide what matters next.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple experiments and practice tasks to change patterns that cause stress, anxiety, or low mood. CBT is useful for problems like sleep trouble, unhelpful worry, and mood shifts.
Dawn treats approach choice as a team effort. She discusses goals, tries methods that fit the person's needs, and adjusts plans if something is not working. That collaborative process helps find strategies that feel doable and relevant to everyday life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation and behavioral work. Phone sessions can be a good option when lower bandwidth or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easy to send brief updates, ask questions between sessions, or do short check-ins that fit a busy schedule.
These formats let licensed professionals provide regular care without demanding long travel time, and they make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or school commitments.
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