About Dawn
Dawn Redwood works mainly in a client-centred way, putting each person's needs and wishes at the heart of sessions. She uses straightforward, respectful listening and helps people talk through what matters most to them. Dawn holds NCPS as a credential and has five years of practice experience in counselling settings across the UK.
Dawn has worked in independent practice and with a range of organisations and charities. Her background includes supporting people affected by anxiety, depression, PTSD and trauma.
How Dawn works
She has also provided therapy through employee assistance programmes and offered counselling in school settings. Her approach draws on several methods so the work can be practical and flexible. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone wants to make changes but feels stuck.
Solution-Focused ideas are used to identify small, achievable steps that fit everyday life. Dawn has also studied trauma-focused and psychodynamic approaches and brings that understanding into conversations about past experiences and how they affect current feelings. Sessions aim to help people feel understood, develop coping strategies and make choices that suit their goals.
She has completed additional courses that include clinical supervision and research into working with suicidal clients. That experience shapes how she assesses risk and plans care in collaboration with each person. Dawn offers sessions in English and works with people across a range of concerns including relationship strain, grief, ADHD, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting pressure and career stress.
Dawn lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person says. It helps people feel heard and decide what they want to work on, whether that is anxiety, relationship strain or coping with life change.Motivational Interviewing is a short-term, conversational approach that helps when someone wants to make a change but feels uncertain. It supports clearer goals and small steps towards them, useful for issues like sleep, eating, career decisions or sticking with treatment plans.
Psychodynamic ideas look at how past experience can shape present feelings and patterns. That perspective can be helpful when someone wants to understand recurring problems such as attachment, abandonment or longstanding emotional patterns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Dawn will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences and current circumstances. That joint planning helps shape the pace and focus of sessions so the work stays relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual connection, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat allows quicker check-ins and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family life and daily routines.
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