About Maxine
Maxine Brown-Sartor, LPC, offers calm, practical support for people overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, parenting strain, or life changes. She listens closely and helps clients find tools that fit their daily lives. Conversations are straightforward and focused on small steps that make a difference.
Maxine draws on eight years of clinical experience across schools, community programs, and in-home services. She has helped people with social skills, independent living skills, self-esteem, and behavioral challenges.
Background and approach
Her background includes work as a school counselor and a behavioral specialist who connected families with local supports. In sessions she uses simple, learnable techniques. She encourages positive self-talk, mindfulness practices, and journaling.
She also incorporates cognitive behavioral ideas to help shift unhelpful thoughts and solution-focused steps to set achievable goals. Clients can expect a nonjudgmental space where practical skills are modeled and practiced together. Maxine pays attention to signs of self-harm and will address safety when necessary.
She believes lasting change comes from gradual effort and clear strategies. Her experience as a parent of a child with special needs informs her understanding of daily frustrations and the systems families navigate. That perspective shapes how she talks with parents about supports and school-related resources.
People seeking help for depression, trauma, grief, addiction concerns, or relationship stress may find her direct, steady approach helpful.
How therapeutic approaches work in online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person's own goals. It helps people feel heard and guides them to try ideas that fit their life and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable tasks and experiments.
Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to the present moment and simple breathing or awareness practices. It can help with worry, sleep difficulties, and coping with strong emotions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That discussion shapes whether sessions focus more on skills practice, insight, or short-term problem solving.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversation and in-session demonstrations. Phone calls work when a lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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