Dawn Madden, LPC

Dawn Madden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 11 years of clinical experience. She helps people who struggle with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and issues related to LGBT identity. She also works with those managing substance use and trauma-related challenges.

Dawn approaches therapy as a collaboration. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings as well as skills to manage intense emotions.

Her work draws on several evidence-based methods, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches. Attachment-focused perspectives inform how she looks at patterns in close relationships and feelings of abandonment or emptiness.

In session she uses clear, direct discussion and hands-on skill practice. She helps clients notice unhelpful thinking patterns, try different actions, and set boundaries that feel doable. She also supports people working through family-of-origin concerns, blended family strain, and communication problems.

People who come because they struggle with codependency, commitment worries, or body image find concrete strategies here. Dawn also brings experience addressing first responder issues, addiction, dissociation, and forgiveness work. She offers straightforward guidance aimed at making daily life more manageable.

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