Maudeen Jordan , LCSW

Maudeen Jordan brings decades of experience to her work, combining a long career in social work with many years as a counselor. She began serving as a social worker in 1972 and earned her graduate degree from California State University in San Jose, completing her License in Clinical Social Work in 1990. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), she has worked across settings that include services for developmentally disabled children and their families, a private practice focused on depression, PTSD, anxiety and grief, and hospice work as a bereavement coordinator where she counseled children, individuals and groups.

Her clinical style is warm, kind and approachable, grounded in the belief that each person is the expert on their own life. She describes her approach as eclectic, drawing on methods that have proven effective for the people she serves. She values EMDR for trauma-related symptoms and embraces a client-centered stance that emphasizes strengths, small steps toward goals and practical skills. Journaling is a frequent tool she recommends to foster self-understanding, self-compassion and goal attainment, and she often gives tailored homework and communication practice suggestions for work with family and friends.

Maudeen draws on a wealth of personal experience as well, including many years of marriage, parenting and long-distance caregiving for an elderly parent, experiences that shaped her appreciation for caregiver self-care. After closing her counseling office in 2018 she wrote a book and began building an online coaching practice, offering life coaching skills alongside therapeutic techniques. Maudeen integrates both religious and spiritual perspectives into her work, practicing meditation and yoga and honoring a range of spiritual traditions. She has a particular specialty in grief work related to separations from original beliefs and the guilt that can accompany that process, and she aims to be a reflective partner who helps clients clarify the choices that matter most to them.