Maxine Brown-Sartor , LPC

Maxine Brown-Sartor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 8 years of experience working with teens, adults, and families in a variety of settings. She has served as a school counselor and as a behavioral specialist in the community, delivering behavioral modification support to families and offering both individual and group therapy in home settings. She has also guided parents toward community supports such as Family Connections and Developmental Pediatrics to assist with special education services for children with special needs.

Her work with children has included building social skills, promoting independent living abilities, and strengthening self-esteem. As a mother of a child with special needs, she brings lived understanding to the frustrations families often face and uses that perspective to inform practical, compassionate care. Maxine centers her practice on listening attentively and helping clients discover their own solutions, emphasizing the client as an active partner in change.

She encourages tools like positive self-talk, mindfulness, and journaling to help shift negative thoughts and behaviors into more constructive patterns, and models those techniques during sessions. Maxine provides a nonjudgmental, understanding approach, screens for self-harm behaviors when appropriate, and recognizes that sometimes people primarily need to be heard and reassured that it is okay not to feel okay, particularly during times of widespread stress and life disruption.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Maxine Brown-Sartor uses client-centered therapy to create a supportive space where the client's goals and values guide the work. This approach focuses on empathetic listening and collaboration to help clients build self-awareness, self-esteem, and practical strategies for everyday challenges.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT to help clients identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is useful for addressing anxiety, depression, stress, and many common mood and coping concerns by teaching concrete skills for managing thoughts and reactions.

Mindfulness therapy is incorporated to teach present-moment awareness and grounding techniques that can reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation. Simple practices like mindful breathing and guided attention support coping with stress, trauma responses, and ongoing worry.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Maxine works collaboratively with each person to choose or combine methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan over time as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for busy schedules and clients in different locations. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to connect with licensed professionals from home or while traveling.