About Maureen
Maureen Colligan greets people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck and offers calm, steady support. She brings 30 years of counseling experience and works with adults who are coping with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, or depression. Maureen aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful so someone can begin to feel more confident and capable again.
Maureen is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and also holds an LPCC credential.
Background and approach
She adapts conversations and plans to each person's situation instead of using a one-size-fits-all approach. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual and move at a pace that feels right for them. Her work draws on client-centered methods that keep the person's priorities in focus.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used when helpful to address thoughts and behaviors that keep people stuck. Solution-Focused ideas help set practical, achievable goals between sessions. Maureen has long experience helping people who face loss, relationship strain, caregiving stress, financial worries, or the lasting effects of past trauma.
She emphasizes compassion and sensitivity while helping someone identify small steps toward feeling better and more in control. People who choose Maureen can expect clear, down-to-earth conversation and a tailored plan for progress. She practices in New Mexico and conducts sessions in English, including options for remote formats when that fits a person's needs.
How Maureen’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Maureen uses client-centered therapy to keep conversations focused on each person's needs and priorities; this means sessions begin by listening closely and shaping the work around what the client finds most important. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety or low mood, which can be practical work done between meetings.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Maureen will work with the client to decide which methods fit best based on goals, comfort level, and progress. She adapts techniques over time so the plan stays useful and relevant to what the person wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for deeper conversations and seeing nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or reflective writing between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, New Mexico
- Languages
- English