About Maureen
Maureen Mccullum is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of clinical experience. She practices in Pennsylvania and offers an approachable, steady presence for people facing life changes. Maureen focuses on straightforward, practical work rather than jargon.
She speaks English and uses familiar language to help clients feel understood quickly. Maureen helps people dealing with depression, anxiety, stress, and grief. She also supports those navigating parenting challenges, ADHD, addiction concerns, eating issues, anger, and career stress.
Background and approach
Her additional focus areas include chronic illness and pain, caregiver strain, body image, and isolation among others. Her counseling style centers on respect, compassion, and small nudges toward change. Sessions aim to identify strengths, build workable strategies, and clarify goals.
Maureen adapts her approach to the person in front of her rather than pushing a single method. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot thinking patterns that keep problems alive. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help clients make room for difficult feelings while moving toward what matters.
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Practical details are shared early so people can plan appointments. Maureen is used to mixing short skill-focused work with deeper conversation depending on the need.
She encourages realistic steps and steady progress instead of sudden fixes.
How Maureen's Approaches Work Online
Maureen uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is concrete and often includes simple exercises and small homework tasks to practice between meetings.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking committed steps toward them even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. ACT helps people move forward on things that matter rather than waiting for feelings to change first.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Maureen talks with each person about goals and preferences, and then chooses methods that fit those needs. She adapts pacing and tools so the plan stays useful and doable.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can serve for quick check-ins or shorter contacts. These options provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, South Carolina
- Languages
- English