About Dawn
Dawn Sweeten is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She also supports people facing relationship and family struggles, parenting challenges, career stress, compassion fatigue, depression, and ADHD. Dawn welcomes conversations about abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver strain, body image, cancer, and other complex life concerns.
Dawn keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals and steps they can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on skills people can try right away. She draws on approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques. These tools help with managing stress, changing unhelpful thinking, building emotional regulation, and finding workable solutions for day-to-day problems.
Dawn has 18 years of experience in social work in Florida and uses that background to understand how health problems, caregiving roles, and life transitions affect mood and functioning. She favors practical plans that fit a person’s life and routine. In sessions she partners with people to clarify what matters most, experiment with different steps, and adjust the plan over time.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, with attention to what a person needs now and next.
Approaches that fit online care
Dawn uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral strategies to help people manage stress and shift unhelpful thinking. Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person’s story so goals feel meaningful. Cognitive behavioral techniques break problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teach practical steps to change patterns.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills are useful for strong emotions, relationship tensions, and times of high stress. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process, and she works collaboratively to choose what fits each person’s needs and goals.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and practice skills in conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or getting support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what works best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English