About Magdelene
Magdelene Thebaud is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and low self-esteem. She supports people facing career transitions and those coping with bipolar symptoms. She also addresses feelings of emptiness, isolation, jealousy, and struggles with self-love.
Magdelene keeps sessions practical and down-to-earth. She focuses on understanding each person's day-to-day experience and building concrete strategies to feel better. Conversations center on small habits, thought patterns, and realistic steps that fit a client's life.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and strengths-based. Clients work together with her to identify what is working and what needs to change. She encourages self-compassion while helping people try new coping skills and ways of relating to themselves.
Magdelene draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor plans to each person. Treatment plans aim to match goals like reducing worry, improving mood, or handling career pressure. Progress is tracked through regular check-ins and adjustments to the plan.
She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential in Illinois and has three years of clinical experience. Sessions are offered in English and provided through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a session based on availability.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Magdelene uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thinking and building practical skills. One common approach helps people notice worry and unhelpful thoughts, then test them with small experiments and new behaviors to reduce anxiety and rumination.Another approach emphasizes skills for managing mood and routine. It helps people create steady habits, structure daily life, and respond to mood swings with concrete plans that lower the impact of depressive or bipolar symptoms.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust based on what helps most. The therapist and client check progress together and pick strategies that feel manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video can mirror an in-person conversation, phone works with lower bandwidth or when a camera is not wanted, and chat or messaging makes it easier to fit short check-ins into a busy day. These options help make regular work on anxiety and mood easier to maintain alongside work, school, or family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Self-love
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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