About Maggie
Maggie Haines is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Maine with seven years of experience helping people facing stress and anxiety. She works with individuals dealing with relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and mood concerns. Her approach is grounded in straightforward support and practical steps people can use day to day.
Maggie aims to treat everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She adapts conversations and plans to match each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all script.
Background and approach
Clients can expect clear goals and steady encouragement during hard moments. In sessions she focuses on what matters most to the person in front of her. That can mean managing panic and worry, improving communication, processing grief, or finding ways to cope with life changes.
She also supports people facing burnout, addiction, body image struggles, and challenges related to caregiving or chronic illness. Her background includes clinical work across a range of concerns, including ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and grief. Maggie pays attention to how past events like abandonment, adoption or attachment wounds shape current patterns.
She helps people notice those patterns and try different ways of responding. Maggie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and practical tools tailored to each situation. She encourages small, sustainable steps so progress feels manageable.
The focus is on building skills that people can use between sessions and in everyday life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Many of her sessions draw on evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. One approach emphasizes learning practical strategies to manage anxiety and stress, such as breathing techniques, thought checks, and stepwise exposure to feared situations. These tools aim to reduce daily overwhelm and increase a person's sense of control.Another common approach centers on processing difficult life events and improving communication. This work helps people make sense of past hurts, practice new ways of talking about needs, and repair or reframe relationships where possible. It can be useful for grief, trauma-related concerns, and family conflict.
Maggie treats finding the right approach as a collaboration. She will work with each person to identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process helps match methods to a person’s needs and preferences rather than imposing a single path.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when visual cues help. Phone sessions can fit into tight schedules or when a lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between appointments or use shorter, on-the-go contacts. Together these formats provide flexible ways to keep therapy consistent and accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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