About Maysun
Maysun Elnihum is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar mood concerns, addiction, ADHD, and relationship or family-related difficulties. She also supports those facing grief, anger, career transitions, compassion fatigue, and self-esteem struggles. Her approach aims to make hard problems feel more manageable and practical for daily life.
Maysun keeps sessions focused and straightforward. She listens first and then helps people try small changes to test what actually helps.
How Maysun works
Sessions include talking through thoughts and behaviors, learning new coping skills, and setting short, doable goals. She blends different evidence-based methods to match each person’s needs. Her clinical toolbox includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness-based techniques.
These approaches are used to reduce unhelpful thinking, build helpful habits, and increase tolerance for difficult emotions. Motivational interviewing is added when people want clearer direction and commitment to change. Maysun trained and practiced in both personal and psychiatric settings before offering her current counseling services.
That mix of experience informs a practical style that balances empathy with clear steps. She draws on eight years of work supporting people through crises and life shifts. Sessions are offered in English and take place online using video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
The structure and pace are adjusted to each person’s goals so progress can feel realistic and steady.
Maysun lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Maysun works with
The areas below are the ones Maysun selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and clarifies what matters most so actions match values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change negative patterns and reduce symptoms like depression and anxiety. Mindfulness Therapy focuses on present-moment awareness and breathing or attention skills to reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to pick methods that match their goals, experiences, and preferences. Sessions may combine elements from different approaches until a good fit is found and adjustments are made over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can help with quick check-ins or short coaching-style messages, and each format makes scheduling around work or family easier. Licensed professionals can use these options to keep therapy consistent and flexible for varied needs.
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