About Maureen
Maureen Karol is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, practicing in Florida with more than 21 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting concerns. Maureen aims to simplify overwhelming problems so clients can take clear next steps.
She breaks concerns into small, manageable parts so strong emotions don't cloud decision making. Maureen describes therapy as a learning process that can feel uncomfortable at times and empowering at others.
Background and approach
She often uses humor to relieve tension and make progress easier. In sessions she positions herself as a co-pilot while the client stays in the driver's seat. That means the pace and topics are guided by each person’s goals.
Maureen works to create an atmosphere of respect where people feel comfortable speaking openly about what matters to them. Her background includes community mental health and independent practice work across crisis response and substance-abuse settings. Over two decades she has supported people dealing with addictions, mood disorders, and life changes while also supervising clinicians pursuing licensure in Florida.
Maureen uses practical, goal-oriented methods to help people move forward. She helps with blended family issues, communication problems, divorce and separation, and life-purpose questions. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm, sharpen choices, and build useful coping skills.
How Maureen’s Methods Work Online
Maureen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to guide online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Motivational Interviewing helps clarify a person's goals and boosts their motivation to change behaviors like substance use or patterns that fuel stress.She treats choosing an approach as a shared decision. During early sessions she will listen to your goals and preferences, explain options, and together you will decide which methods to try. That choice can change over time as needs and progress evolve.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets you see facial cues for deeper conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text-based messaging works well for shorter check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These formats make it easier to keep therapy going around work, parenting, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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