About Maxine
Maxine Douglas greets readers with a calm, straightforward style. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - based in Georgia with twenty years of experience. She aims to help people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, or life changes.
Her approach is respectful and down-to-earth. Maxine uses practical conversation and simple tools to help people manage daily challenges. She blends acceptance-focused work with cognitive techniques and client-centered listening to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - she and the client set goals and try ideas together. Her background includes long experience as both a therapist and educator, which informs how she explains concepts and coaches skills. She often helps people facing trauma, emotional abuse, or complicated grief, and she offers support around relationship and intimacy concerns.
Parenting strain, caregiving stress, and issues related to adoption and foster care are also areas she addresses. She works with a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns, from bipolar mood challenges to substance use and codependency. Maxine also supports people dealing with loneliness, guilt, shame, and challenges tied to aging or family of origin patterns.
Her style stays practical and human when topics feel heavy. Sessions use conversation, mindfulness practices, and skills you can use between meetings. Maxine aims to create a steady pace so people notice small changes.
She invites clients to explore options and find what helps them move forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take steps toward what matters. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful habits, which helps with mood, anxiety, and coping skills. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an open, nonjudgmental conversation where the therapist listens closely and reflects what the client brings, creating a space to clarify goals and values.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals and preferences. That may mean trying a skill for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are a good option when low bandwidth or not being on camera matters. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for short check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than talking. These formats make it simpler to schedule around work, caregiving, or other day-to-day demands while keeping the focus on practical change and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English