About Madilyne
Madilyne Harmston helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck find clearer footing and a practical path forward. She creates a calm space where clients can say what they think and feel without judgment. Madilyne is a licensed independent clinical social worker, LICSW, practicing in Minnesota with three years of experience.
Her approach centers on listening first and tailoring sessions to each person’s needs. She uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to the client.
How Madilyne works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding. Madilyne also blends mindfulness practices to help people manage strong emotions and stay present. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy help set concrete goals and find steps that feel doable.
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She brings attention to parenting concerns, adoption and foster care issues, attachment questions, and fatherhood topics when these come up. Other focuses include coping with life changes, relationship commitment questions, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and finding purpose in midlife or young adulthood.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely. Madilyne aims to work collaboratively so clients leave with clearer plans, practical tools, and a sense of forward movement.
Madilyne lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Madilyne works with
The areas below are the ones Madilyne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities. Online sessions give space for people to set the pace, name what matters, and steer each session toward their current concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems in place and practices small experiments to change them. That work moves well over video or phone when clients want concrete tools for anxiety, depression, or mood shifts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Madilyne will collaborate with clients to decide whether client-centered conversations, CBT exercises, or mindfulness practices fit best. She adjusts methods over time based on goals, preferences, and how someone responds to each technique.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging suits brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or people who prefer writing over talking. These options make it easier to schedule consistent care and to use therapeutic tools between sessions.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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