Dawn Byrne, MD, LCPC

Dawn Byrne, MD, LCPC, is a Maryland-based mental health professional with more than 25 years of experience working with relational, addiction, and mood concerns. She combines clinical training and practical teaching experience to help people manage anxiety, stress, relationship conflict, substance use, and life transitions. Her credentials include an MD, which denotes a Doctor of Medicine, and LCPC, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and she also holds two master of arts degrees in Counseling and Education.

Her career spans a range of settings, including private practice, corporate employee assistance programs, community psychiatry, addiction recovery clinics, and emergency room crisis intervention. Before focusing full time on counseling, she spent a decade as a corporate trainer specializing in coping skills, and she continues to integrate psycho-educational techniques into therapeutic work to build everyday problem-solving abilities.

Dawn describes a client-centered and solution-focused approach, offering practical skills for self-management, boundary setting, relapse prevention, and emotional regulation. She works with issues such as addictions, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, eating and food-related issues, anger, career difficulties, depression, and compassion fatigue. Her clinical methods include attachment-based therapy, client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, narrative therapy, solution-focused therapy, and trauma-focused therapy, all applied to help clients identify goals and take steps toward greater life satisfaction.