About Maureen
Maureen Kirchhoff is a licensed clinical social worker with four decades of experience. She offers steady, practical support for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and low self-esteem. Maureen works with adults aged 21 and over and adapts conversations to each person’s situation.
She also includes faith-based options when that fits a client’s values. Maureen favors an approach that centers the client. That means she listens first, then helps shape goals that feel meaningful and doable.
Background and approach
She uses mindfulness to build calm and reduce reactivity. Narrative work helps people reframe painful stories about themselves. Her background includes long experience across clinical settings and community care.
Over 40 years she has supported people facing loss, illness, caregiver strain, and crisis after trauma or disaster. She draws on a mix of psychodynamic and systemic ideas to notice relationship patterns and past wounds that affect daily life. In sessions Maureen focuses on clear, attainable steps.
Conversations aim to improve coping, reduce isolation, and strengthen self-worth. She pays attention to practical needs like managing chronic pain, navigating caregiver stress, or working through family of origin issues. Maureen holds LCSW and CSW credentials and practices in Wyoming.
Sessions are offered in English and are designed for adults seeking steady, experienced guidance.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Maureen commonly uses client-centered work and mindfulness together to help people manage strong emotions and daily stress. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, respect, and building goals the person actually wants. Mindfulness offers simple skills to notice thoughts and calm the body so emotions feel less overwhelming.She also draws on narrative therapy to help people rewrite unhelpful life stories. That approach looks at the way a problem is told and finds new ways to describe strengths and choices. These methods are useful for anxiety, grief, trauma-related concerns, and struggles with self-worth or life purpose.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Maureen will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. She checks in about what helps and adjusts the plan as needed so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video lets you read facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Chat and messaging make shorter check-ins possible between sessions and can help maintain progress on a flexible schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Colorado
- Languages
- English