About Eileen
Eileen Madden is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who aims to help people find more kindness toward themselves. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Her style is warm and direct, and she often blends practical skills with attention to feelings and body awareness.
She draws on more than a decade of clinical experience across outpatient, partial hospitalization, and in-home settings.
Background and approach
Eileen has worked with people facing trauma, addiction, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and complex medical or caregiving stress. She pays close attention to how physical health and movement connect with emotional well-being. In sessions she mixes evidence-based techniques such as cognitive behavioral work and skills training with acceptance-oriented strategies and attachment-focused understanding.
This means clients learn concrete tools for managing symptoms while also exploring how early patterns and relationships influence current reactions. Her background includes undergraduate and master’s degrees from Boston College and a history of community service and international study. Outside of clinical work she teaches boxing, runs regularly, and follows a plant-forward approach to eating.
These personal interests shape a pragmatic, movement-friendly lens in therapy. Eileen invites clients to notice what is already working in their lives and to build small, steady changes. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs, aiming for clearer coping, calmer days, and more meaningful connections.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then choosing actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, useful for panic, low mood, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationships shape current patterns and help people rewrite those patterns to feel safer and more connected.Eileen treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit their needs. Adjustments are made over time so work in therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can fit a short break or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, or caregiving schedules while keeping consistent progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish