About Maureen
Maureen Connell is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in New York. She brings 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem concerns. Her style is direct and warm, aimed at making the first step feel less overwhelming for someone reaching out.
She uses an attachment-based lens to look at how past relationships affect current feelings and reactions. That helps when worry or fear shows up in relationships or when patterns from childhood keep repeating.
Background and approach
She also draws from client-centered methods, which means sessions focus on the person in front of her and what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral techniques are part of her work when thoughts and behaviors drive anxiety or low mood. Those tools help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new actions in daily life.
Dialectical skills are offered for managing strong emotions and building steadier coping skills. Sessions are conversational. Maureen listens first, then offers practical steps you can try between meetings.
She works at a pace set by the person seeking help and adjusts strategies based on what is most useful. Clients often come for relationship difficulties, LGBT concerns, communication problems, or life transitions like divorce and midlife changes. She also supports people dealing with grief around family of origin issues, substance struggles, trauma, and finding life purpose.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Maureen uses attachment-based work to help people see how early relationships shape current fears and reactions. That approach focuses on connection patterns and can clarify why certain situations trigger anxiety or avoidance. Client-centered therapy is also central to her style; it means sessions are guided by the client’s priorities and feelings, with the therapist offering empathy and reflection rather than judgment.She often brings cognitive behavioral techniques into online sessions to address anxious thoughts and behaviors. CBT involves identifying thinking patterns that worsen worry and practicing new actions that reduce distress. Those exercises can be assigned as small, practical tasks between meetings so progress continues between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist and client discuss needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that seem most likely to help. If something isn’t working, they adjust the plan together until the fit feels right.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different lifestyles. Video calls let people work face to face without travel, phone sessions need less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while using the therapeutic tools Maureen practices.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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