Her main area of interest is the connection between stress and weight gain allowing her to be the "Stress and Weight Gain" expert for Ediets upon their venture into website chats. Other areas of concentration in complimentary medicine are hormone health, detoxification, aromatherapy and energy work.  Over the years she has enjoyed lecturing on a national level on hormone health and writing on the topic of weight management for the national subscription-based magazine called Pounds Aweigh. She was then published internationally in Aromatherapy and Wellbeing magazine for her original work in developing the "Conditioned Response" Program which utilizes meditative visualization, aromatherapy and sound wave therapy to aid in behavior modification and body balance for weight loss. This program was also mentioned twice in the leading women's fitness magazine Oxygen.

Dawn and her former colleague completed a Breast Cancer Research Project. This preliminary study, done on breast cancer survivors, tested specific hormone profile's connections to breast cancer occurrences via saliva testing (Bio Health Lab, CA). The findings will be tabulated by West Chester University Research Center, (West Chester, Pa.) and then considered for a government grant to fund an expanded study.

Dawn's interest in starting the Becoming... Hormonal Metabolic Correction weight loss program was due to her struggle with her own weight due to a mercury toxicity. This led to her many years of research for her book on "sub-clinical" conditions related to weight gain. She has seen a new trend in the "Baby Boomers" of slowed metabolism loss due to factors such as excess stress, toxins, yeast and hormonal imbalances. After losing 35 lbs. herself on the hCG  program she adopted Dr. Simeon's  protocol and added her expertise in the "psychological" aspects of weight loss including relaxation techniques and  emotional cleansing. After the weight loss goal is met, further client education on how to "anchor" the body is essential to keeping the weight off. This can be determined by the clients specific sub-clinical issues such as food sensitivities as well as their  digestive and hormonal imbalances.