Dawn Redwood
Compassionate client-centred counsellor
About Dawn
Dawn Redwood works in a client-centred way and focuses on what each person needs. She uses a compassionate style to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or major life changes. Dawn holds the NCPS credential and brings five years of experience to her practice.
She draws on a range of counselling methods so sessions can be shaped around what helps most. That can mean talking through difficult memories, setting small practical goals, or looking at how past relationships affect present feelings.
Background and approach
Dawn aims to make sessions feel straightforward and approachable rather than clinical. Her background includes work in independent practice and with charities. She has provided support through employee assistance programmes and in school settings.
This range has helped her understand a wide set of concerns such as depression, trauma and relationship problems. Dawn also works with people dealing with ADHD, intimacy and sexual issues, eating and sleeping struggles, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, codependency, and coping after separation or domestic violence.
She recently completed a research paper on supporting people with suicidal thoughts and is a clinical supervisor. In sessions she prioritises the client’s pace and choices while offering clear, practical ideas when those are wanted. Dawn aims to help people feel steadier and more able to cope day to day.
What Dawn works with
How Dawn works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches you can use online
Client-centred therapy places the person at the heart of the work. The therapist listens closely and follows the client’s pace, helping people find their own solutions and feel heard. Motivational interviewing focuses on building motivation for change by exploring a person’s own reasons and goals in a practical way. It is useful for choices about behaviour, work or health. Trauma-focused therapy helps people address the impact of traumatic events by working carefully through difficult memories and their effects, often combining supportive talking and gradual steps to reduce distress.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Dawn works with each person to decide which methods fit their situation and preferences. She will suggest tests of different ways of working and adjust plans as needs and goals become clearer, so the work stays practical and responsive to what helps most.
Online sessions give flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or suit a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter updates, ongoing support or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to keep therapy going around work, family and other commitments.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
