Maxine Brown-Sartor, LPC

Maxine Brown-Sartor, LPC, focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, or sleep problems. She writes and talks in simple terms and aims to help clients find steps they can use day to day. Her experience includes supporting parents and individuals facing life changes and emotional pain.

Maxine draws on eight years of clinical work and prior roles in schools and community settings. She has worked as a school counselor and a behavioral specialist, offering behavior support and skill-building to families. She has led individual and group sessions in homes and connected families with community services for special education and developmental supports.

Her approach centers on listening first and helping people discover practical solutions. She encourages tools like positive self-talk, mindfulness, and journaling, and models these techniques during sessions. Maxine also checks for any self-harm concerns and responds directly if safety issues arise.

Parents and caregivers will find she understands some of the daily strains of raising a child with special needs, and she uses that lived perspective when appropriate. She emphasizes clear, doable steps rather than abstract ideas. Maxine aims to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk, process feelings, and practice new habits.

Over time she helps clients rework negative thoughts and actions into more helpful patterns. Her work supports people coping with addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and major mood changes. The focus is on steady progress and practical coping skills.

How her approaches fit into online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and perspectives. It means the therapist listens closely, reflects back what she hears, and helps people find their own solutions. This approach is useful for relationship struggles, grief, and general life stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and create new habits. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and managing mood shifts.

Mindfulness Therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. It helps people notice stress and choose calmer responses, which supports coping with anger, compassion fatigue, and trauma reactions.

Finding the right approach is something to do together. The therapist will discuss a client's needs, goals, and preferences and recommend which methods to try first. That plan can change as progress is made, and sessions are shaped by the client's feedback.

Please confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking, since the biography does not list them. Online therapy can make scheduling easier, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Many people find virtual sessions help fit therapy into a busy week while keeping focus on the same therapeutic work done in person.