About Lawana
Dr. Lawana Mabry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with fourteen years of experience providing counseling in Louisiana. She combines practical care with clear goals to help people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and low self-esteem.
Dr. Mabry uses straightforward language and a steady presence to make hard conversations easier to begin. Her background spans many settings, including child protection, grief work, medical social work, and school-based services.
She has worked in inpatient psychiatric care and led an outpatient behavioral health agency across multiple locations in Louisiana.
How Lawana works
That range of experience shapes how she approaches complex situations and overlapping problems. Dr. Mabry has provided intensive trauma-focused therapy to children who have experienced sexual abuse, witnessed domestic violence, or been exposed to other severe events.
She also supports people facing parenting challenges, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and the emotional fallout from serious medical conditions like cancer. In sessions she aims to meet each person where they are and help them move toward realistic, individualized goals. She integrates practical strategies that address daily functioning, coping skills, and communication problems.
People who want a clear plan and steady guidance often find this approach helpful. Her work also covers career stress, grief and loss, coping with life changes, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue. Dr.
Mabry holds an MS LCSW and an LA LCSW and practices in Louisiana, offering services in English.
What Lawana works with
The areas below are the ones Lawana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Dr. Mabry uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical coping and healing. One common approach she uses emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions and daily stressors, teaching breathing, grounding, and communication techniques to reduce overwhelm. Another approach focuses on trauma-informed methods that help people process painful events in small, manageable steps and rebuild a sense of safety and routine.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to choose techniques that feel useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, brief exchanges between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to access licensed professionals from different locations.
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