About Maxine
Maxine Rabinowe offers steady, experienced support for people facing family stress, trauma, grief, and low self-esteem. She writes in a calm, straightforward way and helps people take small, manageable steps forward. Her approach is respectful and nonjudgmental, focused on what a person needs now.
Maxine is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, LICSW, with 43 years of professional experience. She draws on that long career to help people talk through painful memories and family patterns.
How Maxine works
Sessions aim to make space for honest feelings and to build clearer ways to cope with loss, shame, or difficult relationships. Her work combines client-centered listening with mindfulness practices and psychodynamic thinking. That means she offers attentive listening, teaches simple grounding and attention skills, and pays attention to how past relationships shape current struggles.
The mix is practical and aimed at real-life change rather than jargon. Maxine also addresses aging and caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, workplace concerns, and end-of-life issues. She helps people sort priorities, manage caregiving burdens, and face transitions with more confidence.
Conversations include both immediate coping strategies and longer-term reflection. Sessions are offered in English and take place with methods that fit each person’s needs. Maxine encourages those who are nervous about starting to take the first step and will guide the process at a pace that feels right.
Maxine lists 3 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.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 43 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
How her approaches work in online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on attentive listening and helping the client set the pace. The therapist reflects what a person says and helps them find their own solutions, which can be useful for family conflict, self-esteem, and decisions about caregiving.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding skills to reduce overwhelm. These practices help when grief, chronic pain, or anxiety make it hard to focus on day-to-day life.
Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past relationships and family patterns affect current feelings and behavior. This approach supports people who want to understand repeating patterns or long-standing emotional pain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and she will adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions can be held by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and hold longer conversations, phone calls need less bandwidth, live chat can suit short check-ins, and messaging works for ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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A practical next step
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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