Dr. Dawn Schulze, LCPC, LPC

Dr. Dawn Schulze helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and grief. She has three decades of experience and brings a steady, practical style to sessions. Her work also includes coaching to support personal goals and life transitions.

She keeps language plain and focuses on small, usable steps. Sessions often include noticing patterns, testing new behaviors, and trying different ways to communicate. The aim is clearer thinking and more usable skills for everyday life.

Dawn uses several well-established methods to match the problem at hand. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, for example, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep distress going. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for regulating emotion and managing crises. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift difficult emotional cycles in close relationships.

Clients may also work with trauma-focused strategies when past hurt affects daily life. Solution-Focused Therapy is used when people want shorter-term, goal-directed help. Dawn adapts her approach to each person's needs instead of using the same plan for everyone.

She is licensed as an LCPC and an LPC and practices from Minnesota. Dawn helps people facing a wide range of concerns, including attachment and family-of-origin issues, caregiving stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care questions, body image, and divorce-related challenges. Her style is collaborative, calm, and focused on practical change.

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Dr. Schulze often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, stress, and everyday mood problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is another common approach she uses to teach skills for regulating intense emotions and managing crises, which can be helpful for strong mood swings and relationship stress.

She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify and shift painful emotional patterns in close relationships when that is relevant. Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work visually on skills and role-play communication. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, skill reinforcement, or when someone prefers writing. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.