About Eileen
Eileen Madden offers a calm, straightforward place to start when life feels overwhelming. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and changes that make daily life harder. Eileen speaks English and Spanish and brings 13 years of clinical experience to her work in New Jersey.
Her style is warm and practical. She helps people notice painful feelings without letting those feelings define them. Sessions often include talking through thoughts and learning simple skills to respond differently to stress.
How Eileen works
She also uses body-based practices to help people reconnect with their senses and reduce tension. Eileen draws on several approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult emotions and move toward what matters.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Attachment-based ideas guide work around intimacy, trust, and relationship patterns. She has worked across outpatient, partial hospitalization, and in-home settings.
Her background includes supporting people with trauma, addiction, grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, and chronic health concerns. Eileen also has experience with identity-related issues, body image, and sexual expression concerns. Outside clinical work she cares for her own physical and spiritual wellbeing.
She values movement, plant-based nutrition, and community service. Those interests inform a practical, grounded approach to therapy that aims to rekindle a sense of meaning and joy.
Eileen lists 19 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Eileen works with
The areas below are the ones Eileen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, and then take steps toward what matters. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying new behaviors to change mood and function; it often includes homework between sessions to practice skills.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you can adjust techniques over time if something isn’t working as hoped.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins, progress notes, or ongoing skill practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, manage energy levels, and maintain continuity across locations.
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