About Dashon
Dashon Mcnelley is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Alabama who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and problems connected to trauma or life changes. She focuses on clear, practical steps people can use right away. Parents and individuals worried about relationships, parenting, or addiction will find straightforward support and guidance.
Dashon prefers short-term goals tied to day-to-day improvement alongside deeper work when needed. She uses a collaborative, warm style in sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations emphasize listening first, then building skills for emotion regulation and communication. Clients learn to recognize patterns, test small changes, and choose new responses in stressful moments. Dashon often blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for teaching distress tolerance and emotional balance. Emotionally-focused ideas help when relationship or attachment concerns come up. Her background includes five years of clinical work in settings that involved mood disorders, trauma-related concerns, and behavioral challenges.
She works with issues like ADHD, grief, anger, self-esteem, and intimacy-related struggles alongside parenting and family stressors. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Dashon will work with each person to set realistic goals and practical steps that fit their life and schedule.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgment. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so people can explore what matters most to them and find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with practical strategies. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when someone wants skill-based work to change daily patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, then recommend and try methods that fit. Sessions are collaborative, so adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation and screen-share worksheets. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text allow brief check-ins, on-the-go skill practice, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy lives while keeping the focus on skills, understanding, and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English