About Dawnel
Dawnel Kuhn is a licensed mental health counselor with eight years of experience helping people who are anxious, stressed, struggling with addiction, or coping after trauma. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. Parents reading on a phone will find clear, direct support and a calm, steady presence in session.
She listens first and helps build a plan around each person’s strengths and goals. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm, manage mood changes, and address patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
Dawnel uses straightforward language and checks in often to make sure the plan still fits. Her work covers depression, anger, and a range of trauma-related issues. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment concerns, codependency, communication and control problems, and the effects of domestic violence or separation.
Substance use and addiction are included in her focus areas. Dawnel draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions and tailors methods to individual needs. She encourages small, manageable changes and practical coping skills that can be used outside of sessions.
Progress is tracked in ways that are easy to understand. Clients connect with her from Florida and beyond, with therapy available in English. She frames therapy as a collaboration and aims to create a predictable, respectful space where people can talk through what matters most and try new ways of managing challenges.
Practical approaches for online support
Two common evidence-based techniques she uses are focused work on thoughts and behavior, and skills-based strategies for managing emotion. Cognitive-style methods involve noticing unhelpful thought patterns and practicing different ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and depression. Skills-based work teaches concrete tools for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and handling triggers tied to trauma or anger.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and daily life. Sessions begin with clear goals, and methods are adjusted as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and a face-to-face feel, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and live chat or text messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing notes between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel, or a busy home life while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English