About Dawn
Dawn Clay is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the everyday challenges that wear on mood and motivation. Dawn aims to make appointments feel approachable and practical for busy lives.
She helps people cope with grief and loss, work on self-esteem and confidence, and handle parenting concerns. Dawn also supports those facing relationship strain, anger, sleep disruption, or career stress.
Background and approach
She offers guidance for people navigating major life changes and for those experiencing compassion fatigue or caregiving burdens. Her practice includes attention to ADHD, chronic pain or illness, and issues tied to aging or hospice care. Dawn also addresses blended family challenges, communication problems, codependency, and the emotional work around divorce or forgiveness.
She pays particular attention to women's issues, life purpose, and cultivating self-love. In sessions, Dawn encourages open conversation and steady problem-solving. She listens without judgment and helps clients set small, realistic steps to feel better.
People meet practical goals and learn ways to cope between sessions. Her approach is calm and down-to-earth. Dawn works with people who want clear strategies alongside empathic support.
She is based in Indiana and sees people through video, phone, chat, or text-based messaging.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Dawn uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional support. One approach emphasizes learning specific coping skills to manage anxiety and stress, such as short grounding exercises, breathing techniques, and step-by-step plans to reduce overwhelm. These skills are useful for worries, panic, and day-to-day tension.Another approach centers on working through grief and life transitions by creating space to tell your story, identify meaningful goals, and build routines that support healing. This helps people who are recovering from loss, facing major changes, or seeking renewed purpose.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Dawn collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress and priorities change.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video sessions work well for deeper conversations, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and brief check-ins or coaching-style notes suit busy days through chat or text. These options make it easier to get consistent support without travel and to fit care around work and family responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Arizona
- Languages
- English