About Dawn
Dawn Madden helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed, or uncertain after big life changes. She supports people dealing with low self-esteem and LGBT concerns. She also works with those coping with substance use and trauma.
Dawn is a licensed professional counselor, LPC, in Pennsylvania with 11 years of experience. Dawn keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters most to each person. She treats clients as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
How Dawn works
Conversations center on practical steps, clearer choices, and small experiments to try between sessions. Her work draws on several approaches. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and act on them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify patterns of thought that get in the way. Attachment-based ideas guide work on trust and close relationships. Clients can expect calm, direct support and tools to cope in daily life.
Dawn pays attention to how past relationships and family history affect current choices. She also brings experience from the substance use field when addiction and recovery are part of the story. Dawn aims to make therapy fit the person, not the other way around.
She helps people set realistic goals, practice new skills, and track progress over time. The focus is on practical change that feels manageable and meaningful.
Dawn lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people name what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches concrete skill-building to change those patterns. It often helps with anxiety, low mood, and self-critical thinking. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape how a person connects today and can help with trust, intimacy, and patterns in close relationships.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that match your needs. Together you can adjust the focus over time based on what helps and what feels right.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video calls let you work face to face, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can be good for quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, caregiving, or recovery commitments.
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