Dawn Byrne, LCPC

Dawn Byrne is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Maryland with 25 years of clinical experience. She works with adults on relationship struggles, anxiety, addiction concerns, and anger. Dawn also supports people facing grief, career shifts, and burnout from caregiving or first responder work.

She trained in counseling and education and has worked across private practice, employee assistance programs, community psychiatry, and addiction recovery clinics. She has experience doing crisis intervention in emergency settings and has provided corporate training in coping skills. This background shapes a practical style that blends therapy with teachable skills.

Dawn describes her approach as client-centered and solution-focused. Sessions typically include talking through problems, learning concrete coping techniques, and practicing self-management. She emphasizes short-term tools that can reduce reactivity and help manage tension at home or work.

Her work often combines cognitive behavioral strategies with attachment-informed thinking and motivational interviewing to address substance use, communication breakdowns, and patterns that feed anger or resentment. She also uses narrative techniques to help people reframe difficult experiences and reduce rumination.

People who choose Dawn can expect a direct, skills-oriented process. She helps identify practical steps, relapse prevention strategies for addiction, and ways to improve boundary-setting and conflict management. Dawn uses her training in coping skills to translate therapy into everyday practices that fit busy lives.

How her approaches translate to online sessions