About Maxine
Maxine Brown-Sartor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who offers clear, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She keeps conversations straightforward and listens first. Her style focuses on helping people find everyday tools that fit their lives.
With eight years of professional experience, Maxine draws on a background that includes school counseling and behavioral support in community settings. She has provided individual and group sessions and worked in homes, helping caregivers connect with local resources for special education and developmental services.
Background and approach
Those experiences shape the way she guides people through parenting challenges and developmental concerns. Maxine favors approaches that are collaborative and skill-based. She uses client-centered work to follow each person’s lead, cognitive behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thoughts, and mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to build small, practical changes.
She also brings trauma-focused strategies when past events are affecting daily life. Sessions include hands-on exercises such as journaling, positive self-talk, and simple mindfulness practices. Maxine demonstrates and models these tools so clients can try them between sessions.
She emphasizes that change takes effort and supports people who are willing to practice outside of the appointment. She provides a nonjudgmental atmosphere and routinely screens for self-harm to keep care aligned with each person’s needs. Maxine speaks English and works with people in South Carolina and beyond who prefer to meet online.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities. The therapist creates space for people to say what matters most and helps them find their own solutions; this works well in conversation-based video or phone sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence each other. It uses clear exercises and homework such as tracking thoughts or practicing new behaviors, which transfer easily to online formats and messaging between appointments. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These short exercises can be practiced during a call, over a phone check-in, or through guided audio and written prompts in chat. Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels realistic for their life, then try methods that fit. Sessions can be adjusted over time based on what helps most. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can work when visuals are not necessary, and live chat or text messaging make brief check-ins and written exercises easy to fit into a busy day. These options help people access consistent support without rearranging their whole schedule.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English