About Maysun
Maysun Elnihum is a Licensed Professional Counselor working in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, bipolar symptoms, and addiction concerns. She supports individuals facing relationship and family difficulties, grief, anger, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping people build coping skills and clearer thinking.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful steps, and Client-Centered methods to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real-life problems and small, doable changes. Maysun has eight years of experience in both independent practice and psychiatric settings. That background gives her familiarity with a range of mood and trauma-related issues and with helping people after difficult events.
She pays attention to how past attachment and abandonment experiences affect current relationships. In sessions she works collaboratively, listening first and then offering tools like thought records, behavioral experiments, values-based goals, and mindfulness exercises. She emphasizes practical strategies that can fit into daily life.
Progress is tracked by what clients notice changing in their mood, behavior, or relationships. People choosing therapy with Maysun can expect clear explanations, direct skill-building, and a steady focus on what matters most to them. She aims to help clients find clarity, regain a sense of control, and move toward goals at a manageable pace.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take concrete steps toward those values. It combines practical actions with acceptance of difficult thoughts and feelings to move forward despite setbacks. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through exercises like thought records and behavioral experiments; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and mood regulation. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens deeply and supports the client's own growth and choices.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Maysun will discuss goals, preferences, and past experiences to determine which methods fit best. She collaborates with clients to adapt techniques and adjust the plan as needs change, so the approach evolves with progress.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow for face-to-face discussion and visual cues while fitting sessions into a busy schedule. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break or when being on camera is not desired. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or people who prefer writing their thoughts. These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care across changing routines and locations.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English