About Lawana
Dr. Lawana Mabry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and parenting concerns. She practices in Louisiana and brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions.
Her work focuses on helping people cope with life changes, grief, trauma, and challenges such as ADHD and self-esteem struggles. She holds a Doctor of Behavioral Health degree from Arizona State University and completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Louisiana State University.
Background and approach
Her background includes roles in child protection, grief therapy, medical social work, school social work, and inpatient psychiatric social work. She has also worked as a clinical director for an outpatient behavioral health agency with multiple locations in Louisiana. Dr.
Mabry has provided intensive trauma-focused therapy to children who have experienced sexual abuse or witnessed serious violence. She has led individual, group, and family psychotherapy in varied settings. That practical experience informs how she supports people facing complex life problems now.
In sessions she aims to meet people where they are and help them move toward what matters most to them. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adjusts her approach to fit each person’s needs. Her style is straightforward and goal-oriented, with room for the hard feelings that come with change.
People who work with her get clear, achievable steps to practice between sessions. She also offers coaching for career and caregiver stress and helps people navigate blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and attachment-related worries.
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy options
Dr. Mabry uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and healing. One common approach she uses involves structured problem solving and skills practice to reduce anxiety and improve coping. This helps people build tools for everyday stress and manage symptoms of depression or ADHD.She also draws on trauma-focused methods when working with people who have experienced abuse, witnessing violence, or other traumatic events. These methods focus on stabilizing reactions, processing difficult memories at a pace that feels manageable, and strengthening safety and coping skills.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and life situation. That process can change as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full face-to-face feel, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a camera-free conversation is preferred. Live chat and messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, short coaching touchpoints, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy day and to continue care when travel or scheduling would otherwise get in the way.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Mississippi
- Languages
- English