- Years in practice
- 14
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Mississippi
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Anger management
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Lawana
Dr. Lawana Mabry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 14 years of experience providing counseling across Louisiana. She focuses on parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, depression, anger, ADHD, trauma, grief, and career-related challenges.
Her approach centers on meeting people where they are and helping them move toward clear, practical goals. She earned a doctorate in behavioral health from Arizona State University and completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Louisiana State University.
Background and approach
Her work has included roles in child protection, medical social work, school social work, and inpatient psychiatric settings. This variety gives her a broad view of common family and caregiving stresses. Dr.
Mabry has provided grief therapy and trauma-focused care for children who have experienced sexual abuse or witnessed severe violence. She has also worked as a clinical director for an outpatient behavioral health agency with multiple locations in Louisiana. Those roles shaped her skill in matching interventions to the situation at hand.
In sessions she focuses on practical steps parents can try between meetings. That can include communication strategies, routines to reduce stress, and ways to manage strong emotions like anger or anxiety. She emphasizes goals that fit a parent's day-to-day life.
Her practice also addresses adoption and foster care concerns, attachment challenges, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and related topics. People seeking support around parenting and life changes can expect collaborative planning and straightforward guidance.
What Lawana works with
Everything Lawana lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Lawana helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- ADHD
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Online approaches for parenting and stress management
Dr. Mabry uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical skills people can use right away. One common approach she applies emphasizes developing coping skills for stress and anxiety, teaching breathing, grounding, and simple behavioral steps to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve day-to-day functioning. Another approach centers on trauma-informed care, which helps people understand how past events affect current behavior and builds safer ways to respond to triggers and strong emotions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to identify goals, trial techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That means treatment plans change if a strategy isn’t working and evolve to match family demands and parenting goals.
Online sessions can make regular therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let the therapist and client work face-to-face when needed, while phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is desired. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter exchanges, quick coaching between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options provide flexibility for parents juggling work, appointments, and caregiving.
Questions people ask about Lawana
What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, ADHD, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting, career questions, compassion fatigue, and related issues like attachment and caregiver stress.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is practical and goal-focused. She meets people where they are and emphasizes steps clients can use between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She holds a doctorate in behavioral health and has 14 years of experience working in child protection, grief therapy, medical and school social work, inpatient psychiatry, and outpatient clinical leadership.
Where is she licensed and based?
She practices in Louisiana and holds MS LCSW and LA LCSW credentials as listed.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What formats are available for sessions?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session.
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