About Dawn
Dr. Dawn Schulze helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and grief. She also offers life coaching to support change and goal-setting.
Dr. Schulze brings calm, direct guidance and practical tools to sessions. She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, and a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC.
Over 30 years she has worked with many people facing loss, difficult transitions, and tangled family histories. Her focus includes abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, and blended family stress.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses clear, evidence-based methods to help people name problems and try small steps that make a difference. That can mean practicing new communication habits, learning ways to reduce anxiety, or building routines to manage chronic illness and pain. She talks through realistic actions people can use between sessions.
Her style is collaborative and grounded. Clients set goals and she offers structured tools drawn from therapies like cognitive behavioral and trauma-focused approaches. She also uses techniques from dialectical behavior and solution-focused work to help people find stability and forward movement.
Dr. Schulze practices from Minnesota and works with English-speaking clients. She accepts international clients for online work.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that fit their needs.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Dr. Schulze uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT works well for anxiety, stress, and practical problem solving by breaking big issues into small steps.She also draws on trauma-focused therapy to help people process past hurts at a manageable pace. That work focuses on skills for grounding, reducing distress, and slowly making sense of difficult memories while building safety and stability.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match goals, comfort level, and life demands. Plans may change as progress is made or new needs appear, and choices are revisited together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from different places, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain continuity when travel or relocation occurs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arizona, Kansas, South Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah
- Languages
- English