Welcome to your journey towards self-healing and personal growth. I will be your guide as you explore your inner world. As your guide, I provide a warm, non-judgmental, and authentic approach to help you feel safe and comfortable through this journey. Life presents many challenges, therefore I will focus on your strengths to help you access your personal power to overcome them.

My experience in counseling has led me to working with toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults. I have a trauma-informed and client-centered perspective and utilize a variety of techniques that will best suit you. I will always follow your lead while giving you tools to support your personal goals. I am trained in CBT, DBT, Play Therapy, EMDR, and have my TI-RYT200 to provide personal yoga and mindfulness practices.

I look forward to meeting you and helping you to bloom.

“despite knowing they won’t be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives” -sunflowers, Rupi Kaur

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Life can feel heavy sometimes, but you don’t have to carry it all on your own. Asking for support is a brave and powerful step forward. I’m Dieunn Musser, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor based in Dubuque, Iowa, and I’m here to help you move forward with clarity and confidence. Whether you're navigating stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, or a major life transition, my role is to walk beside you with compassion, curiosity, and care.

With a foundation in social work and years of experience supporting individuals through diverse emotional and psychological concerns, I offer a space where you can be fully yourself—without judgment. My practice focuses on helping adults and adolescents work through anxiety, depression, trauma, and other personal challenges, using evidence-based approaches that are tailored to your unique situation.

I draw from therapeutic frameworks like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, and mindfulness-based practices, integrating them in a way that feels supportive and practical. Most importantly, I believe healing happens through connection, and I strive to build a trusting relationship where you feel heard, understood, and empowered to grow.

Life is full of adventures and hardships that all too often leave us feeling weak, broken, unloveable, ashamed, lost and alone. This journey can be incredibly challenging as well as isolating, especially when we struggle to find healthy support.

I see my role as a counselor to be a supportive guide. Utilizing a non-judgmental and compassionate approach, I work to provide direction through safe exploration of feelings, thoughts and beliefs that interfere with healthy growth. I have a passion for assisting individuals in navigating the way to stability, self-love and wholeness.

I know the discomfort that comes with allowing ourselves to be vulnerable, which is why I approach each person with authenticity and transparency. In my practice, I utilize a variety of therapeutic techniques to meet each person’s individual needs and specific goals. I work well with children, adolescents, adults and families, and I comfortably address life transition stressors, depression, anxiety, trauma, family discord/attachment, addiction and grief. 

I look forward to walking with you on your path to wellness by joining you in your experiences of distress, growth, hope and joy.

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending” - C.S. Lewis

My approach is rooted in providing trauma-informed, culturally competent care. I have experience working with clients from various backgrounds, aged six and older, and offer individualized services according to each client’s needs. I particularly love working with women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, anxiety, depression, and religious issues.

Your decision to begin therapy is a powerful step but can leave you feeling vulnerable. I am passionate about creating a non-judgmental, collaborative environment so you are comfortable being open and authentic. Therapy doesn't have to be scary!

All people have the capacity to grow and change and deserve dignity throughout that process. Life is hard. Let’s navigate through it together.

My experience as a therapist makes me well suited to address issues surrounding various areas of mental health; such as, clients struggling with anxiety, depression, and other disruptions in mood. My work focuses on life's journey. Traveling with my clients through the ups, downs and detours life often throws at us. I have experience working with areas specific to mental health symptomology, addictions, sexuality and perinatal mood and anxiety.

My training utilizes a CBT Approach. I work with clients to alleviate disruptive symptoms through solution focused interventions, challenging destructive methods of coping. I am certified as a Level II EMDR Clinician. I have also completed training with with Postpartum Support International to address concerns related to Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders.

My practice location is made up of myself and other clinicians who value the integration of whole body wellness. Understanding the relationship between multiple disciplines in treating the whole person. We utilize Mindfulness, Cognition Based Interventions, and Yoga/Meditation to address the individual clients needs.

The foundation of my counseling is to authentically provide an accepting, non judgemental and compassionate space for you to share your story.  Together, we will begin to work on creating a new narrative that supports growth and the release of old patterns, habits and beliefs that no longer serve you.  My approach in therapy is one that focuses on both the mind and the body.  The techniques that I use in counseling include traditional talk therapies as well as  mindfulness,  art therapy techniques, somatic therapy techniques, meditation, yoga techniques, and breathwork.

I have experience working with children, adolescents, and adults.  I enjoy working with individuals as well as couples and families.  I have experience working with anxiety, depression, addiction, lowered self worth, mood disorders, trauma, attachment, women specific issues. relationship issues, communication issues, stress management, and working to resolve thinking patterns that are impeding a person’s ability to move forward.

Successful therapy is the result of effective collaboration between client and therapist.Choosing the right therapist for you is a very personal decision and can seem like an overwhelming task so finding the right "fit" is so important. I value creating a strong, trusting relationship with my clients and want them to feel that they can be comfortable and open sharing their burdens in our sessions. I work with the client to promote self discovery and confidence building which in turn helps them to improve their relationships and manage their life challenges.

In my work as a therapist I take client-centered empowerment and strength based approach.  I am a Licensed Independent Social Workerwith over 8 years of clincial and private practice experience working with couples and individuals.  My style is a collaborative, problem solving, and solution focused approach allowing you as the individual (or couple) to find the interventions and tools that you can use to reach your goals and gain your power back.  In my practice these interventions and tools are explored with emphasis on whole body wellness, including, but not limited to self-care, nutrition, and exercise.

My training includes couples therapy, life coaching techniques, mindful meditation, body image and food issues.  I have a great deal of expericence working with individuals struggling with anxiety and depression.

Whether you are looking for a sounding board for a transitional time in your life, a 3rd party to mediate relationship struggles or to help with relationship enhancement, or someone to help problem solve and reflect back goalsand help through barriers, I would be honored to assist you on your journey to self-improvement, wellness, and confident decision making.

Working with kids, adolescents and families is my passion. When I’m not at Building Blocks Counseling Center, I may be found on the University of Dubuque campus as an adjunct psychology professor, mentoring up and coming psychology professionals, or working with new moms who are experiencing postpartum depression. I am the mother of two boys, one that spent 3 months in the NICU, so we have had quite an adventure in our time as a family. My mission is to assist individuals in exploring and processing life experiences while learning tools to build healthy foundations on which to grow into stronger and healthier versions of themselves.

My special interests include working with children, adolescents and families who are experiencing life transitions, anger, anxiety and trauma. I use a variety of techniques including mindfulness and play therapy. Together we will build a foundation on which to grow coping skills so that you can become the best and healthiest version of yourself.

My primary approaches to therapy are Cognitive Behavioral and Brief and Solution Focused but every body is wired differently and I enjoy being creative and collaborating with each client and family to find what works for their journey. Play and projects are integral in my work with kids and I enjoy watching a child let their walls down and build trust.

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