About Madeline
Madeline Gardiner is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, depression, and relationship or family conflict. She works with people facing life changes, grief, trauma, anger, ADHD, and career questions. Madeline aims to make therapy practical and understandable for busy parents and caretakers.
She uses a client-centered style that starts where each person is. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps clients can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Madeline brings a calm, encouraging approach and tailors methods to fit each person’s background and needs. Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. She also draws on mindfulness to build present-moment awareness and EMDR for those with trauma histories.
The Gottman Method informs her work on relationship communication and intimacy-related concerns. Madeline has three years of professional experience as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor. That experience includes helping people with blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and issues around commitment and trust.
She understands common barriers to getting care and tries to make the process straightforward. In sessions she blends practical skills with supportive listening. Clients can expect concrete strategies, coaching-style guidance when useful, and space to process feelings.
The focus is on what helps people move forward day to day.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Madeline commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral methods in online sessions. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s goals, then shaping sessions around what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and practices new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety or low mood.She also integrates EMDR for trauma-related work when appropriate. EMDR uses guided eye movements or similar bilateral stimulation to help people process distressing memories and reduce their intensity. These approaches can be combined so the therapist and client pick what fits the concern and comfort level.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust plans over time. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for interactive skill practice and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Text and chat let people share updates between sessions and fit shorter exchanges into a busy day.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English