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How Luwana works
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Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Licensed in
- Maine
- Years in practice
- 12
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Luwana
Luwana Dyer is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who focuses on practical, down-to-earth support. She brings 12 years of experience and a straightforward style that helps people tackle stress, anger, anxiety, and life transitions. She works with adults to address relationship strain, grief, trauma, mood concerns, and challenges like ADHD and compassion fatigue.
Her background includes independent practice and positions in school and Head Start programs. She has also worked alongside state and court systems.
Background and approach
Over the years she has supported people facing loss, fertility and end-of-life issues, and the everyday shifts that come with major life change. Luwana offers care for people managing depression, bipolar symptoms, sleep or eating worries, and low self-esteem. She has a history of working with members of the LGBT community and with concerns tied to adoption, attachment, and blended family situations.
She also helps with communication problems, control issues, and persistent stress from caregiving or chronic illness. In sessions she aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. The focus is on building clear goals and a plan that fits each person’s daily life.
Conversations are practical and paced to what each person needs at the moment. She encourages clients to set realistic steps and track progress between meetings. The goal is to make things more manageable and to help people move toward the life they want.
What Luwana works with
Everything Luwana lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Luwana's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Many of Luwana's sessions draw on common evidence-based techniques that help people manage strong emotions and change patterns. One approach focuses on skills training for emotion regulation and stress management, teaching concrete tools for calming down, reducing reactivity, and handling anger in healthier ways. Another approach centers on problem-solving and behavioral change, breaking issues into small steps and practicing new habits to improve sleep, eating, and daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, history, and what feels most useful. Plans are reviewed and adjusted over time so the methods fit the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people talk face-to-face, phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to keep continuity of care when schedules or travel get in the way.
Questions people ask about Luwana
What concerns does this therapist address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and family issues, ADHD, caregiving strain, and many related problems.
What is the therapist's style and approach?
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and focuses on practical steps, clear goals, and sensitive listening to help people manage emotions and daily challenges.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 12 years of professional experience working in independent practice, school and Head Start settings, and sometimes alongside state and court systems.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the LCPC credential, listed as ME LCPC, and practices from Maine.
Are sessions offered in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is able to work with international clients.
What session formats are available?
She meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Click Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.