About Magdelena
Magdelena Unger, LICSW, has spent a decade helping people sort through stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. She helps clients untangle patterns that leave them feeling stuck and builds simple, practical plans to move forward. Magdalena meets people where they are and focuses on small steps that add up over time.
She works with adults and couples to clarify what’s happening and why. Magdalena listens for repeating patterns in relationships, work, and self-talk.
Background and approach
Then she and the client choose focused goals and measurable steps to reach them. Sessions often include clear explanations about symptoms, short-term strategies for coping, and skills practice people can use right away. She also offers diagnostic sessions to map symptom patterns and targeted crisis care when a recent event has left someone shaken.
Magdalena provides help for a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety, including caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and life-purpose questions. She also supports people dealing with panic attacks, social anxiety, seasonal mood shifts, and issues like guilt or shame. Her style is direct and practical while still being warm.
Magdalena helps people translate insights into doable action. She aims to make therapy feel less overwhelming and more like a steady place to try new approaches. To begin, she asks people to reflect on current struggles and goals so sessions can focus on what matters most.
Progress is tracked in small steps so changes feel manageable and realistic.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Evidence-based approaches focus on clear techniques you can practice between sessions. One common method is skills-based work that teaches breathing, grounding, and short behavioral experiments to reduce panic and anxiety. These are simple steps practiced in-session and rehearsed afterward to build confidence.A second approach is problem-focused short-term work that helps identify unhelpful patterns and replace them with concrete alternatives. This method breaks larger issues into small tasks, which helps people manage stress, career worries, or relationship communication one step at a time.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help figure out what fits your goals, needs, and daily life. Together you’ll try techniques, notice what helps, and adjust the plan so it matches your pace and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, and live chat or text messaging gives ongoing check-ins and quick skill practice. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and keep progress moving forward without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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