Dawn Clay , LCSW

Dawn Clay is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Indiana with 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people navigate stress and anxiety, cope with grief and loss, and address parenting concerns as well as motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. Dawn draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to support clients facing life changes, relationship challenges, sleep difficulties, anger, career questions, depression, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

She strives to create an open, nonjudgmental environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared honestly and explored collaboratively. Recognizing that seeking change requires courage, Dawn offers steady support to help clients take the first steps toward a more satisfying and balanced life. Her approach emphasizes practical coping skills, emotional processing, and building resilience tailored to each person’s needs.

Evidence-Based Techniques and Online Support

Dawn uses evidence-based techniques that help people identify and reframe unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior, offering practical strategies for reducing anxiety, improving mood, and increasing motivation. These approaches teach skills clients can apply between sessions to manage stress and build resilience.

She also employs skills-based methods focused on coping, emotion regulation, and problem-solving, which are useful for addressing parenting challenges, relationship tensions, and daily life demands. For clients processing loss, Dawn offers supportive approaches that allow for grief exploration, meaning-making, and gradual adjustment at a personalized pace.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work itself - Dawn collaborates with each person to determine what techniques fit best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they adapt the plan over time to ensure it remains useful and relevant.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit care into a busy life. These formats provide flexibility for scheduling, allow sessions from home or other convenient locations, and support consistent access to a licensed professional when in-person visits are not feasible.