About Maureen
Maureen McEachen is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of practice experience who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on life transitions, grief, and coping with serious illness. Maureen listens with calm attention and aims to make sessions practical and easy to follow.
She draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try small changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are used to clarify values and take steps that matter even when feelings are painful.
Background and approach
Attachment-based approaches inform how she talks about relationships and patterns that repeat across a person’s life. Maureen moved to California from the Washington, DC area and has a background working in mental health and depression. She holds both LCSW and LICSW credentials and completed a specialty credential in hospice and palliative care.
That training shaped her work with loss, serious illness, and end-of-life concerns. Her sessions aim to be straightforward. People can expect focused conversation, practical tools to try between sessions, and support in navigating difficult decisions.
Maureen also addresses issues like addiction, sleep problems, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and caregiving stress. She offers therapy in English and provides online sessions for people in California. New clients begin by answering a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session according to the therapist’s availability.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Maureen commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices to help people notice patterns of thinking and try concrete changes. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm in daily life.She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas, which help people clarify what matters most and take meaningful action even when emotions are strong. These approaches are explained in straightforward terms and adapted to the person's goals. Finding the right method is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with each person to choose or blend techniques that fit their needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and keep momentum when time is tight. These options make it easier to fit regular work on anxiety and life transitions into a busy week.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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