About Maggie
Maggie Bolon is a licensed social worker and mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and questions about identity. She works with issues like ADHD, mood disorders, intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and career stress. Maggie brings a direct, compassionate style that aims to make therapy practical and accessible.
She uses a straightforward, collaborative approach. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on small, doable changes.
Background and approach
Maggie pays attention to neurodiversity and takes a nonjudgmental view of differences in thinking and feeling. Her background includes seven years of clinical practice and prior social work experience. She holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, with ties to Idaho.
Those credentials guide her clinical work and recordkeeping. Maggie blends several therapy approaches to fit each person. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment ideas, client-centered listening, narrative techniques that reframe stories, and solution-focused strategies to set goals and track progress.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented rather than overly technical. Therapy can include short skills practice, planning for next steps, and checking how changes are working. People often leave with clearer priorities and a few practical tools to try between sessions.
If someone prefers different scheduling or sliding scale options, she maintains a independent practice with more details available through her direct site.
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online ACT sessions often include brief exercises and practical steps to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful activities. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful listening and reflecting what a person says so they can find their own answers; this style is useful for building self-understanding and confidence through conversation and feedback. Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and helps reframe or separate problems from identity, which can reduce shame and open new possibilities.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to try methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. If one way doesn’t fit, adjustments are made so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face dialogue and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can work well for focused conversations. Live chat or text messaging lets people check in between appointments or use shorter, flexible touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Washington
- Languages
- English