About Luwana
Luwana Dyer is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 12 years of experience based in Maine. She brings calm, practical support for people facing worry, grief, life shifts, and identity-related concerns. Her approach centers on respect, sensitivity, and steady help to reach meaningful goals.
Dyer has practiced in personal settings and in schools and Head Start programs. She has also collaborated with state and court systems. That range means she is comfortable helping with a variety of life situations and systems that affect daily life.
How Luwana works
She helps people cope with trauma, abuse, and neglect, and with the hard emotions that follow loss and fertility challenges. She also supports people working through anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, motivation problems, and bipolar concerns. Dyer has long experience supporting people from the LGBT community.
Practical issues like sleep, eating, parenting stresses, career transitions, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and chronic pain are also within her focus. She helps people facing attachment concerns, abandonment, blended family adjustments, and communication or commitment challenges. Clients can expect collaborative goal setting and straightforward plans to meet clear aims.
Dyer emphasizes compassion and dignity in each step while tailoring work to individual needs. She aims to help people build skills and make changes that matter in daily life.
What Luwana works with
The areas below are the ones Luwana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maine |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Evidence-based techniques often focus on teaching concrete skills and shifting patterns that cause distress. One common approach teaches people to notice unhelpful thoughts and to test them against real life; this can reduce anxiety and depression by changing how a person responds to stressful moments. Another useful approach centers on processing difficult events and related feelings so they have less power over daily life; this is often used for trauma, grief, and loss.Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will listen to each person's needs, goals, and preferences and then try options together. That collaborative process means plans can change over time to fit what actually helps.
Online sessions offer real practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people see facial cues and work on skills in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option when video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, day-to-day coaching, or writing through thoughts between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still getting steady professional support.
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