About Dawn
Dawn Stonebraker is an Ohio-licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience. She invites people to take small steps toward a more fulfilling life and offers steady support through hard moments. Dawn focuses on practical help and clear skills rather than jargon.
Her background includes extensive work in aging and hospice settings, where she supported people facing grief, loss, chronic illness, and major life transitions. That experience shaped her approach to stress, anxiety, depression, and caregiver strain.
How Dawn works
She helps people learn coping skills they can use right away. Dawn blends several therapy approaches to match each person's needs. She draws from client-centered methods to make space for each person's story.
She uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of thinking. Practical tools are a focus in sessions. That can mean learning grounding and emotion-regulation skills, building routines for daily life, or planning step-by-step changes.
She also supports people dealing with relationship issues, intimacy concerns, and family of origin problems. Dawn works with people facing addiction, codependency, career stress, body image concerns, and the emotional fallout of cancer or chronic pain. She pays attention to compassion fatigue and burnout in caregivers and health workers.
Her style is collaborative and respectful - she sees the person as the expert on their life. Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful. Dawn helps clients set realistic goals and practices between sessions.
She encourages steady progress rather than overnight fixes and adjusts methods as needs change.
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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.
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
How Dawn’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Dawn draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them and take small, value-driven steps. ACT can be useful for stress, grief, and life changes by focusing on actions rather than getting stuck in unhelpful thoughts.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the conversation on the person’s experience and priorities. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes goals that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is another tool she uses to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical experiments to change behavior and mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dawn collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She will adjust the mix of approaches as needs change and as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or health challenges. Video calls let conversations flow much like in-person meetings, while phone sessions can be quieter and use less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, written reflections, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and carry skills into everyday routines.
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