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Dawn Meadow

Profile / United States

Dawn Meadow, LPC

Tennessee

Licensed Professional Counselor - Anxiety and Trauma

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  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Attachment-Based Therapy
  • Client-Centered methods

About Dawn

Dawn Meadow is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee with 22 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, depression, and issues around relationships and grief. She also works with clients facing career strain, addictions, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related struggles.

Her approach uses clear, practical methods. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. Attachment-Based and Client-Centered techniques guide work on relationship patterns and personal values.

Sessions focus on concrete steps and small experiments. Conversations look at thought patterns, behaviors, and what gets in the way of daily functioning. Clients leave with simple skills to use between sessions and ways to test what helps.

She pays attention to how past hurts shape current reactions. That can include trauma, attachment wounds, or histories of domestic violence and divorce. The aim is to reduce overwhelming emotions and increase control over choices in relationships and work.

Dawn also addresses issues that often overlap, such as guilt, shame, isolation, and midlife transitions. She works with people affected by veteran or armed forces experiences and multicultural concerns. Language used in sessions is plain and direct, focused on what the client wants to change.

How her approaches translate to online work

Dawn commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and test unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT sessions often include short exercises and homework to try between meetings, which can make progress concrete and measurable. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to look at relational patterns learned over time and to practice new ways of relating to others in real situations.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean mixing CBT with attachment-focused or client-centered techniques based on what the client needs and wants to try first.

The practical advantage of online sessions is fitting therapy into everyday life. Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to schedule sessions around work, reduce travel time, and allow quick check-ins when a short follow-up helps. Therapists can assign brief in-between-session exercises that are easy to practice in daily routines, helping clients test new responses and notice what changes.

Areas of expertise

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

Attachment issuesCommunication problemsDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessForgivenessGuilt and shameInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMulticultural concernsPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSomatizationWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

22+ years

Listed in

Tennessee

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she help with most often?

She often helps people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, self-esteem, depression, relationship and grief issues.

How would she describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is practical and structured. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside attachment and client-centered approaches to work on thoughts, behaviors, and relationships.

How much experience does she have?

She has 22 years of professional experience as an LPC working with a range of concerns including trauma, addiction, and career stress.

Where is she licensed and practicing?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee and works with clients in that state.

What languages are supported in sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can international clients work with her?

International clients are not currently accepted.

How does pricing work for sessions?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I start a first session?

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