About Madison
Madison Marcotte Lippert welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, life changes, or grief. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. Madison writes short-term goals with each person and focuses on small steps that can ease daily life.
Madison has ten years of experience and holds a Master of Social Work. She practices as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker and also holds a CSW credential.
Background and approach
Her clinical background includes work in schools, hospitals, physician offices, and independent practice in Ohio and Minnesota. Her sessions tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth. She draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral work, attachment-based ideas, and emotionally-focused techniques to help people understand patterns and try new ways of relating to themselves and others.
Mindfulness and acceptance strategies also show up in practical exercises. Madison helps people address a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, parenting strain, ADHD, intimacy and relationship issues, and workplace stress. She also supports those facing communication problems, caregiver stress, and questions about life purpose.
In sessions she emphasizes strengths and resilience. Homework and small experiments are common, along with skills to manage sleep, eating, anger, and coping during transitions. The tone is team-oriented: she works with each person to set goals and track progress.
How Madison’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and clarifying personal values to guide action. It can help when worry or avoidance gets in the way of living the life you value. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and emotional bonds to help people change how they connect with others and manage closeness or distance.Madison uses these approaches together with client-centered and emotionally-focused ideas to match the method to the person. Finding the right approach is collaborative: she listens to your goals, suggests options, and adjusts the plan as you try things and report back on what helps.
Online therapy lets people use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone can fit into a busy day or lower bandwidth situations, live chat and text messaging make short check-ins and skill practice easier between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow therapy to fit into work, school, or caregiving routines while keeping the therapeutic work focused and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Ohio, Colorado, Illinois
- Languages
- English