About Maureen
Maureen Sullivan, LICSW, offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety and stress. She writes in straightforward terms and helps clients take small steps toward feeling steadier. Maureen acknowledges how hard it can be to begin therapy and aims to make the first steps manageable.
With 30 years of experience licensed in Washington, she draws on long clinical work with anxiety, panic, depression, and trauma and abuse. She also helps with self-esteem, motivation, and the strain that comes with major life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on figuring out what matters most to each person and finding realistic ways to move forward. Her style is grounded and collaborative. Maureen treats clients as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on.
Conversations often include practical strategies for managing panic attacks, reducing social anxiety, and coping during transitions. She pays attention to emotions tied to guilt, shame, and forgiveness and helps people deal with isolation or problems in communication. Work may involve learning skills to ease intense moments and trying small behavior changes between sessions.
Maureen offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different needs. Prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability. Her approach aims to be steady, humane, and focused on real-life change.
Practical therapeutic techniques for online care
Maureen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on immediate relief and steady progress. One common approach emphasizes learning concrete coping skills for panic and anxiety - breathing and grounding strategies, short behavioral steps, and ways to reduce intense symptoms during high-stress moments. These techniques are useful for panic attacks, social anxiety, and acute stress.Another helpful strand focuses on processing trauma and its effects on daily life. This involves working through upsetting memories at a pace the client can tolerate, naming painful feelings like guilt or shame, and practicing ways to rebuild safety and trust in routine situations. That work supports recovery from post-traumatic stress and long-term reactions to abuse.
Choosing the right approach is a shared task. Maureen works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts plans over time so the work stays useful and manageable rather than fixed or one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is low or a calmer check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can provide brief check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules and different life circumstances.
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- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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