About Maxine
Maxine Douglas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Georgia with 20 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, or the challenges of addiction. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and ADHD-related difficulties.
Her style is warm and collaborative. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps people can try between meetings. Maxine listens without judgment and builds a plan that fits each person's life and preferences.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of evidence-informed methods, adapting techniques to match what a client needs most. That may include skills work, values-based exercises, or talking through painful experiences to find new perspectives. The emphasis is on what actually helps day to day.
Maxine also brings experience supporting people through trauma, complicated grief, and major life changes. She has worked with concerns such as caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, codependency, and substance use challenges. Her background as an educator informs a clear, patient teaching style.
Clients can expect straightforward guidance, practical tools, and a steady therapeutic presence. Maxine aims to help people regain routine, rebuild confidence, and move toward goals that matter to them.
How approach and online care work together
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters most and take small steps toward those values. It uses simple exercises to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful action, which can help with stress, depression, and ADHD-related struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and offers concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and managing impulsive behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes respectful, nonjudgmental listening and supports people in finding their own answers rather than giving advice.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan based on what actually helps in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult, live chat provides a written back-and-forth in real time, and text-based messaging supports short check-ins or ongoing prompts. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work or family schedules, practice techniques between talks, and maintain continuity when travel or busy weeks occur.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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