About Maureen
Maureen Amos is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship problems. She works with adults facing life transitions and moments that feel overwhelming. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping people take the next practical step.
Maureen draws on ten years of clinical experience across the Washington, D.C. and Virginia region. She treats the immediate problem while also looking at patterns that keep the same issues coming back.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, small experiments between meetings, and building on strengths a person already has. She pays attention to attachment and communication patterns that affect close relationships. That includes struggles with trust, infidelity, and repairing connection after a breach.
Maureen also supports people coping with serious life events like cancer, divorce, or the aftermath of disaster. Body image, eating concerns, guilt, and shame are areas she addresses with practical skills and real-world tools. First responder stress and multicultural concerns are also within her scope of work.
Maureen listens for values and priorities, then helps people make choices that fit their lives. Her approach treats the person, not just a diagnosis. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each client's comfort.
She encourages small changes that add up over time and helps people measure progress in ways that matter to them.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Maureen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on present problems and practical change. One approach emphasizes skill building for managing anxiety and stress through real-life exercises and step-by-step practice to reduce avoidance and improve coping. Another approach looks at relationship patterns and attachment, helping people identify interaction habits and try new ways of communicating to repair trust and connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Maureen treats therapy as a collaboration - she will talk with each person about goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust methods based on what proves helpful. Clients shape the plan and give feedback on what is working.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues for relationship work, phone can fit a shorter check-in or low-bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging supports quick reflections or ongoing check-ins between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or medical appointments while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English