Dashon Mcnelley, LPC

Alabama · 5 years in practice

Dashon Mcnelley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Alabama who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes.

License and registration

LPC, Alabama: LPC04866 · expires July 2026
NPI: 1679165278 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 5
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Dashon

Dashon Mcnelley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Alabama who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She works with individuals feeling overwhelmed by trauma, relationship strain, parenting challenges, addiction, or struggles with self-esteem. Her style aims to make hard conversations feel manageable and clear so people can take practical next steps.

She builds a calm, collaborative space where clients name what matters most and try small changes that make daily life easier.

Background and approach

Sessions focus on real skills for emotion regulation, communication, and coping. Dashon uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs rather than one fixed method. Her background includes five years of clinical work in community settings and outpatient care.

That experience brought repeated chances to support people through grief, divorce, adoption and foster care issues, and trauma recovery. She has worked with people dealing with impulsivity, disruptive mood problems, and care‑giver stress as part of broader treatment plans. Dashon draws on Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and existential approaches.

Those methods help people understand emotions, test new behaviors, and build more dependable routines. She keeps conversations straightforward and focused on what will help in daily life. People who choose her often want a therapist who listens without judgment and then offers hands-on strategies.

Her practice emphasizes steady progress, not quick fixes, and she supports clients as they practice change outside sessions.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Dashon lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Trauma and abuse
Coping with life changes
ADHD
Addictions
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Depression
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Antisocial personality
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Blended family issues
Body image
Caregiver issues and stress
Communication problems
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Personality disorders
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-harm
Self-love
Sexual assault and abuse
Sexuality
Social anxiety and phobia
Young adult issues

Approaches Dashon names

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Online support

Approaches that guide online sessions

Dashon often uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice and name core emotions and shift unhelpful interaction patterns. EFT can be useful for addressing deep emotional pain and improving how someone understands their responses.

She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the person’s own goals and perspective while the therapist listens and reflects. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test practical behavior changes that reduce distress.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Dashon will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. She checks in regularly and adapts techniques based on what helps most in day-to-day life.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and working through feelings. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or to fit a break at work. Live chat or text can be used for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or people who prefer typed conversation. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep work on coping skills between meetings.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does this therapist address?

Dashon works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, coping with life changes, ADHD, addictions, relationship and family issues, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting, anger, self-esteem and other listed concerns.

What is the therapist's general approach in sessions?

She combines client-centered listening with practical tools from CBT and DBT and emotion-focused strategies to help people manage feelings and try new behaviors.

How much experience does she have?

She has five years of clinical experience working in outpatient and community settings supporting people through a range of emotional challenges.

What credentials and location apply?

She is a licensed professional counselor, LPC, practicing in the state of Alabama.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How does cost work for sessions?

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