Dawn Nunney
Warm client-centred counsellor who uses CBT when helpful
About Dawn
Dawn Nunney works from a humanistic, client-centred approach and uses cognitive behavioural therapy when it fits the situation. She makes space for people to talk about what matters most and helps them find practical ways to feel steadier. Dawn's style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at people who want clear steps and a listening ear.
Dawn has eight years' experience in counselling and brings a background in health and social care into her work.
Background and approach
That practical experience helps her understand pressures from work, caregiving, health concerns and major life changes. She has also offered a large volume of online counselling during the Covid crisis alongside face-to-face and phone sessions. Dawn supports people facing anxiety, stress and depression and addresses issues around grief, relationships and family difficulties.
She also helps with self-esteem, anger, intimacy-related worries, addiction and sleep or eating problems. Other areas of focus include parenting strain, career questions, bipolar mood challenges and coping with life changes. Additionally she works with concerns such as abandonment, attachment and family of origin issues, adoption and foster care matters, autism and Asperger Syndrome, fertility and cancer-related stress.
Dawn also offers coaching-style support and helps those experiencing compassion fatigue or caregiver strain. Her qualification is recorded as NCPS. Sessions are offered in English and Dawn accepts international clients.
People can expect practical conversation, collaborative planning and techniques from cognitive behavioural approaches when helpful.
What Dawn works with
How Dawn works
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Sessions & fees
How client-centred and CBT work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and offering acceptance and active listening. Online sessions let a counsellor follow your lead, reflect what you say and help you clarify what matters most.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical tools for changing unhelpful patterns. In an online session CBT can include setting small goals, practising new ways of thinking and reviewing progress between meetings.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit your needs, goals and preferences. That discussion can happen in an early session and adapt as things change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, while phone sessions are useful when a quieter line or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions or times when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other daily demands.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
