Dawn Byrne, MD, LCPC

Dawn Byrne is a Maryland-based clinician with more than 25 years of experience helping individuals and families navigate addiction, relationship conflicts, mood concerns, trauma, and everyday stressors. She combines extensive clinical work in private practice with years of experience in corporate employee assistance programs, community psychiatry, and addiction recovery clinics, bringing a broad perspective to assessment and treatment.

She has helped clients in fast-paced settings as a crisis interventionist in an emergency room, and she draws on that experience when sorting complex problems quickly and clearly. Before focusing full time on counseling, she worked as a corporate trainer for a decade teaching coping skills, so psycho-educational tools and practical skill-building are a key part of her work with clients.

Dawn holds an MD - a medical degree - and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), which authorizes clinical counseling practice in Maryland. She also holds two master’s degrees in Counseling and Education, grounding her practice in both clinical training and teaching methods that support lasting change.

Her style is client-centered and solution-focused, emphasizing collaboration and concrete strategies to improve self-management, set boundaries, reduce anxiety, and address substance use and relapse prevention. She works with issues such as addictions, family and relationship problems, grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, career concerns, and caregiver stress, helping clients build everyday skills that increase satisfaction and resilience.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Dawn Byrne integrates client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and attachment-based techniques into her online practice to address a range of concerns. Client-centered therapy focuses on the client’s experience and priorities, creating space for people to explore goals and make choices that feel authentic to them. CBT offers practical strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with skills that reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve daily functioning. Attachment-based therapy looks at patterns in close relationships, helping clients understand how early connection styles influence current intimacy, communication, and trust.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Dawn works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with Dawn is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for busy schedules, work commitments, and caregiving responsibilities. These options make it easier to access licensed professionals from home or work while maintaining continuity of care and practical skill-building between sessions.