About Maggie
Maggie Shutey is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 12 years of experience based in Montana. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and eating concerns. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping clients feel heard and make steady changes.
Maggie spends sessions helping people name what they are feeling and find practical ways to cope. She guides clients through grounding skills, emotion regulation, and small behavior changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Her background includes long work with people healing from abuse, grief, and challenging life transitions. She also supports those dealing with chronic pain, body image struggles, and relationship patterns tied to attachment and abandonment wounds.
Maggie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to structure work and measure progress. In session, she helps people build resilience and reconnect with their strengths. Maggie gives clear tools for panic, intrusive thoughts, and mood shifts while also addressing deeper patterns like dependent or avoidant tendencies.
She focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. People who seek her out are often ready to tackle immediate anxiety and also want to understand the roots of their distress. Maggie aims to create a steady, nonjudgmental space where clients can practice new responses and notice real change over time.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Many of Maggie’s methods draw on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and habit change. One common approach emphasizes learning practical coping skills for anxiety and panic - breathing, grounding, and brief exposure tasks to reduce avoidance and distress. These tools help when anxious feelings feel overwhelming and interrupt daily life.Another approach concentrates on understanding attachment and relational patterns. This work helps people notice repeated reactions, practice new responses, and repair self-directed criticism that fuels anxiety and depression. It is useful for long-standing patterns like abandonment fear, dependent tendencies, or avoidant behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Maggie collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and what feels manageable. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans so work stays relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit steady care into a routine and keep momentum between visits.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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