About Madeline
Madeline Cohen, LCMHC, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or difficult life changes. She works with individuals on issues like parenting pressure, low self-esteem, trauma, and transitions. Her approach is calm and practical, aimed at small steps that add up to real change.
Madeline uses a mix of therapy styles to match what each person needs. She often draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients notice what matters and act on it.
Background and approach
Attachment-based work and emotionally-focused techniques are part of how she addresses relationship patterns and emotional responses. Across 15 years of practice, Madeline has supported people facing chronic illness, body image struggles, post-traumatic stress, and family-of-origin concerns. She emphasizes clear goals and doable skills, not jargon.
Sessions focus on building resilience and everyday coping strategies. Her way of working is collaborative. Clients set priorities and she helps them carry out practical steps toward those goals.
Conversations tend to balance emotion and problem-solving so progress can be noticed between sessions. Madeline provides therapy from North Carolina and accepts clients from other places as well. She conducts sessions in English and adapts methods to fit each person’s life.
People come to her wanting steadier routines, fewer anxious days, and better ways to handle relationship strain.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions that match those values. Online ACT sessions often mix short exercises, values work, and practice tasks that clients try between meetings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on understanding and shifting patterns in close relationships and strong emotions, which can be discussed by video or phone while practicing new ways of responding. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used for trauma processing through guided sessions that can be adapted to remote formats when appropriate.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Madeline will work together with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process means the approach can shift as needs change.
Online sessions offer practical benefits like fitting therapy into a busy week, using phone calls when bandwidth is low, or relying on chat or text for brief check-ins. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and emotional work, while phone sessions can be a good shorter option. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to follow up between meetings and keep momentum on difficult days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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