Maggie Addiego (she/her/hers)

Most of my clients, both past and present, deal with anxiety on the daily. The overthinking, the worrying, the pang in your chest, the heart racing, all of it. Since I began practicing during graduate school, I have learned numerous ways to help you work around your feelings of anxiety- from grounding techniques to meditation to changing your thoughts to benefit you.

Along with my clients who experience anxiety, I have also worked with a lot of clients who experience depression. A lot of times, they come hand-in-hand. It's hard to push through the lack of motivation, decrease in pleasurable activities, and the frustration of wanting to feel better. I have workbooks, worksheets, and techniques that can help you work through these hard-to-beat feelings.

In this day and age, it's easy to watch your self-esteem plummet; whether that's due to social media, comments made by other people, or any internalization you've done from either of the two. The more we can build your self-esteem, the more you'll feel comfortable approaching the world confidently. I have worksheets and techniques for self-esteem that will hopefully encourage you to speak kindly to yourself and allow yourself to be the confident being you know you are!

CBT is what I practice most often with my clients. It's actually one of the most common treatment modalities in therapy! I will help you - via worksheets, workbooks, homework assignments, and thought restructuring - learn how to change the maladaptive behaviors and thought patterns that don't benefit you. Together, we will come up with alternative solutions for your problems that allow you to feel comfortable and confident handling them yourself!

DBT is great in many ways, so much so that I incorporate techniques from it with most of my clients. Meditation, mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness skills, social skills training...we'll learn all about 'em! They are techniques to help you regulate your thoughts, breathing, and actions before acting on something irrationally. These techniques can be comforting and thought provoking at the same time, a total game changer.

I believe in solution-focused modality because I have seen my clients, as well as myself, get caught up in the same problems because no solutions were presented. The more we look at how we can solve some equations you're running into, the easier it will be for you to grow and learn. While "brief" can sound scary in this context, it's not as "brief" as you may think! This can span from 3 sessions to 3 years together; either way, we will make sure to answer questions with helpful solutions!