About Isabelle
Isabelle Vachon helps people cope with relationship strain, trauma, parenting stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and issues around intimacy and identity. She also supports people facing eating concerns, anger, career shifts, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. Isabelle is introduced by name up front to make the connection easy for a worried parent scanning a phone screen.
Isabelle is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with eight years of practice experience.
How Isabelle works
She keeps sessions focused on the person, not the diagnosis. Conversations are guided by what the client wants to change and what feels most useful in daily life. Her work leans on client-centered methods that start from the client’s perspective.
She draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits. Mindfulness practices are used to build calm and steady attention. Isabelle also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change, and narrative therapy to reframe personal stories.
She balances support with practical feedback, and checks in about when to push and when to listen. Sessions are offered remotely and can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People meet her from Maine and the surrounding region for ongoing work or short-term support.
Her style is down-to-earth and straightforward. She aims to be a steady sounding board, helping clients set clear goals and practice small steps that fit real life.
Isabelle lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Isabelle works with
The areas below are the ones Isabelle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maine |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person at the center of the work. The therapist follows the client’s lead, listens closely, and helps clarify goals and priorities. This approach helps when someone needs a trusted space to talk through parenting worries, relationship questions, or identity concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It helps with anxiety, stress, eating concerns, and patterns that cause repeated problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and support daily coping.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Isabelle will work collaboratively to pick methods that match a person’s goals, values, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans based on how things are going.
Online formats offer flexibility for different rhythms of life. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, in-between support, and people who prefer writing to talking.
These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily demands while using approaches that support change and coping.
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