Helping you understand yourself, navigate challenges & move forward.
Warm, evidence-based support for adults in Buckinghamshire and online, with specialist experience in adult ADHD assessment, complex mental health difficulties and individual therapy.
- A warm, collaborative, client focused approach
Support customised for you.
Everyone’s experiences and challenges are different, and therapy should reflect this. Drawing on her extensive clinical experience, Dawn offers a warm, compassionate and collaborative approach, tailoring her support to each individual’s needs, circumstances and personal goals.
Individual Therapy
A warm, supportive and confidential environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings, develop a greater understanding of the difficulties you may be experiencing, and work together towards meaningful and lasting change.
Relationship Therapy
A supportive and confidential space for couples to explore their relationship, improve communication, understand each other’s needs, work through difficulties and build stronger, more fulfilling relationships.
ADHD Assessment & Support
A comprehensive adult ADHD assessment, with clear, personalised feedback and practical therapeutic support to help you better understand your difficulties and manage everyday life with greater confidence.
Autism Assessment
A comprehensive and compassionate adult autism assessment, offering personalised insight, a clearer understanding of your needs and practical guidance for everyday life.
Understanding is often the beginning of meaningful change.
When you feel properly understood, things start to shift. Our work together is about building that understanding, then finding practical ways to move forward.
Dawn Lankester
Chartered Counselling Psychologist
Professional expertise. Genuinely human support.
Dawn is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Accredited CBT Psychotherapist. Over many years she has worked in specialist NHS services, in private practice and in university teaching, supporting people with everything from everyday worries to complex mental health difficulties. She draws on CBT, EMDR, Schema Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy, and chooses what fits you rather than fitting you to a method.
Understanding your ADHD can change how you understand yourself.
ADHD reaches well beyond attention. It can shape your routines, your work, your relationships and how you feel about yourself. A careful adult ADHD assessment and the right support can bring real clarity, and a few practical ways forward.
Assessment
Understanding
Strategies
Ongoing
support
An approach built around you.
Dawn draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches, working collaboratively with each individual to identify the most appropriate strategies for their needs, circumstances and personal goals.
CBT
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing
Schema Therapy
Understanding long-standing patterns
Compassion Focused Therapy
Building a kinder relationship with yourself
A clear, supportive
process.
Starting therapy can feel like a big step. Here’s what to expect, so nothing comes as a surprise.
Initial conversation
We begin with what bought you here, discuss your current difficulties and what you would like help with
Understanding your
needs
Your experiences, worries and goals shape the direction we take.
A tailored approach
Collboratively choose strategies to suit you, rather than fitting you into one model.
Moving forward
You end therapy with greater self-understanding, practical strategies and the confidence to sustain lasting change.
Knowledge,
perspective
& deep experience.
- Chartered Counselling Psychologist
- Accredited CBT Psychotherapist
- EMDR
- Schema Therapist
- NHS Principal Psychologist
- Academic teaching & supervision
- Adult ADHD & ASD Assessor
A supportive and understanding environment where you can gain insight, build confidence and make meaningful, lasting changes.
Who Dawn
works with.
Maybe you’re wondering about ADHD, getting through a hard stretch, or tired of seeing the same patterns repeat. There’s no “right” way to begin.
Adults exploring whether they have ADHD
Adults recently diagnosed with ADHD
People living with complex psychological difficulties
People who want to understand recurring patterns
Adults looking for practical, down-to-earth therapy
Somewhere
to start.
If your question isn’t answered here, just get in touch. A conversation is always welcome.
Do you offer online appointments?
Yes. I see people in person in Hazlemere and also offer online appointments, which many people find easier to fit around work, family or travel. We can talk through which suits you best when we first speak.
Do you provide adult ADHD assessments?
Yes. I offer Gold Standard adult ADHD assessments for people who think they may have ADHD, along with support afterwards to help you understand the results and put practical strategies in place. If you’re not sure whether an assessment is right for you, get in touch and we can talk it through.
What happens in the first therapy session?
The initial session provides an opportunity to discuss your current difficulties, explore what you would like to achieve from therapy and consider how best I can support you. We’ll take time to understand your individual needs, answer any questions you may have and agree on a way forward together.
Which therapeutic approaches do you use?
I draw on CBT, EMDR, Schema Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy. I don’t believe in one approach for everyone, so we’ll choose the approach, or mix of approaches, that fits you and your goals.
Ready to take
the first step?
Whether you want clarity, ADHD support or room to work through something difficult, the first step is simply a conversation.
Trusted by Leading Professional Bodies
Dawn is committed to ethical practice, ongoing training and high standards of professional care.
HCPC REGISTERED
Health & Care Professions Council
BPS ACCREDITED
British Psychological Society
BABCP MEMBER
Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies
EMDR UK MEMBER
EMDR Association UK