About Lynette
Lynette Maggs is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on clear goals. Her background includes community mental health work and long experience with trauma-related needs.
She works with people facing anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and related concerns. Her early work was in community mental health settings in Florida. That work shaped her view of how mental health affects individuals and whole communities.
Background and approach
She has helped people navigate anxiety, abuse or neglect, parenting strains, and the daily stresses that pile up. Lynette uses evidence-based techniques to set goals and teach skills. She names Cognitive Behavioral therapy and Client Focused therapy as the basis of her approach.
Sessions focus on practical steps, skill building, and understanding patterns that keep problems going. She earned a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from Liberty University in Virginia and holds the Florida LMHC credential. Lynette also spent years supporting military families while moving around with her spouse in the Coast Guard, which informs her perspective on transition and loss.
Her manner is warm and empathetic, with room for humor when it helps. She aims to help people feel more empowered as they reach their goals and face life changes.
Evidence-based techniques and flexible online care
Two of the approaches Lynette names are Cognitive Behavioral therapy and Client Focused therapy. Cognitive Behavioral therapy teaches practical skills to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and stress. Client Focused therapy centers on the person’s experience and uses an empathetic relationship to build trust, which can be useful for trauma, relationship concerns, and self-esteem struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean trying a skills-based exercise for anxiety one week and a more reflective, person-centered conversation the next.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and guided exercises. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to work on anxiety, stress, and life changes from different locations and at flexible times.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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