About Maggie
Maggie Haines is a licensed clinical social worker in Maine who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and trauma. She supports people coping with relationship and family challenges, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, career changes, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Maggie works with a wide range of life changes, including bereavement and long-term illness, and she also addresses adoption and attachment concerns. Maggie keeps conversations direct and respectful.
Background and approach
She listens first to understand what matters most to each person. Then she and the client shape short-term goals and practical steps to try between sessions. Her style is collaborative and goal-focused while remaining warm and down-to-earth.
Clients can expect talk that centers on current needs and daily life. Maggie helps people name problems, sort priorities, and practice new ways of coping. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to the individual rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.
Her professional credential is Licensed Clinical Social Worker, listed as ME LCSW LC17457. She brings seven years of work in clinical settings to her practice in Maine and draws on that experience when planning care. Maggie aims to make beginning therapy straightforward.
She meets people where they are and builds on small successes. The focus is on practical change, clearer communication, and stronger coping skills for the challenges people bring to sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Maggie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and coping. One approach centers on identifying current problems and building small, achievable skills to manage anxiety, stress, and mood shifts. This often helps people feel steadier day to day. Another approach emphasizes improving communication and problem solving for relationship and family tension. It helps people set boundaries, speak clearly, and handle conflicts with fewer escalations.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Maggie will work with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts plans as progress is made and tries strategies that people can practice between sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat or text messaging can fit into busy days and support shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These options make it simpler to keep appointments, fit therapy around work or caregiving, and continue care from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English