- Person-centered care
- Practical coping skills
- Mindfulness-informed
About Dawn
Dawn Dougherty is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and self esteem concerns. She offers calm, practical support for common problems like relationship strain, parenting pressures, workplace stress, and the emotional fallout of trauma and life change. Her work is welcoming to people exploring identity and LGBT issues.
She uses a person-centered way of working that starts with listening and understanding each person's story. Dawn blends that with strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot patterns of thinking that hold people back. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and mindfulness practices from her background as a yoga and meditation instructor.
Sessions focus on clear goals and everyday tools. Clients learn ways to cope with intense feelings, improve communication, and rebuild confidence. Dawn often pairs practical skill-building with space to process grief, trauma, or difficult life transitions.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to what the person needs. She helps people try different techniques and keeps the work rooted in real-life problems like parenting stress, caregiving demands, or job changes.
Dawn practices in California as an LCSW, and she frames therapy as a step-by-step process. New clients fill out a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to fit their lives. She works in English and does not accept international clients.
She uses a person-centered way of working that starts with listening and understanding each person's story. Dawn blends that with strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot patterns of thinking that hold people back. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and mindfulness practices from her background as a yoga and meditation instructor.
Sessions focus on clear goals and everyday tools. Clients learn ways to cope with intense feelings, improve communication, and rebuild confidence. Dawn often pairs practical skill-building with space to process grief, trauma, or difficult life transitions.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to what the person needs. She helps people try different techniques and keeps the work rooted in real-life problems like parenting stress, caregiving demands, or job changes.
Dawn practices in California as an LCSW, and she frames therapy as a step-by-step process. New clients fill out a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to fit their lives. She works in English and does not accept international clients.