About Maxine
Maxine Brown-Sartor greets parents and individuals with calm, practical support. She listens first, then helps people find steps they can take right away. Her style is hands-on and straightforward, so worried parents can get clear ideas for their next move.
Maxine is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with eight years of experience in mental health. Her background includes school counseling, community behavioral work, and providing individual and group sessions in homes.
How Maxine works
She has direct experience helping families access community supports and special education services when children have special needs. Having parented a child with special needs herself, she understands everyday frustrations. That perspective informs how she coaches on social skills, independent living, and building self-esteem.
She emphasizes realistic, small steps that can fit into family life. Her approach centers on listening and guiding people to develop their own solutions. She teaches positive self-talk, journaling, and mindfulness as concrete tools for changing thinking and behavior.
She models techniques and practices them with clients so people know how to use them between sessions. Maxine also screens for self-harm behaviors and offers a nonjudgmental space to talk. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and family strain, trauma, grief, addiction concerns, sleep problems, parenting challenges, anger, and self-esteem issues.
She supports those working through life changes, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and related focus areas such as abandonment, domestic violence, and multicultural concerns.
Maxine lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Maxine works with
The areas below are the ones Maxine 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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
How Maxine’s Approaches Work Online
Maxine uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a caring, nonjudgmental space where people feel heard and can set their own goals. That approach helps when someone first needs to talk things out and find clarity about what they want to change.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and problems that respond well to practical exercises between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will listen to each person's needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. Together they adjust strategies as progress happens so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy family schedules and people spread across different areas. Video calls let conversations feel close to an in-person visit, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit regular work on stress, relationships, trauma recovery, or parenting into daily life.
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