About Maxine
Maxine Douglas offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, or big life changes. She introduces clear steps and simple skills so clients can cope better day to day. Maxine is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with two decades of experience in therapy and education.
She practices in Georgia and holds the credential CSW as well. Her sessions focus on what a person wants to change and how to get there.
How Maxine works
She uses straightforward talk, gentle challenge, and hands-on tools rather than jargon. That can mean learning skills for mood and anxiety, building healthier boundaries, or managing anger and addictive urges. Maxine uses several approaches to suit different needs.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports values-based choices and managing difficult feelings. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the client's goals and pace at the center of work.
She has particular interest in issues around parenting, intimacy, family of origin, adoption and foster care, and caregiver stress. Maxine also addresses LGBT concerns, bipolar disorder, ADHD, grief, trauma, and substance use concerns. Her background in education informs a clear, coaching-style way of teaching skills.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Maxine helps people who need flexible options for talking through problems and building practical strategies to move forward.
Maxine lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
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.
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
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How Maxine’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter to the client, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, teaches practical steps to identify unhelpful thinking and change behavior patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and many everyday problems that respond to skill practice.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That conversation guides whether ACT, CBT, or a client-centered style is emphasized, and adjustments are made as progress is tracked.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins or ongoing skill practice possible between longer appointments.
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