About Maureen
Maureen Doherty is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship tension, family concerns, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Background and approach
Sessions are grounded in everyday language and aim to make coping feel manageable. Maureen responds to what each person brings and adapts the conversation to their situation.
In sessions she listens closely and helps people sort through reactions and choices. She offers straightforward strategies for communication, setting boundaries, and handling caregiver strain or blended family challenges.
Work can include looking at guilt, shame, codependency, and feelings of isolation. Her background includes long experience in California treating concerns tied to aging and geriatric issues, fatherhood challenges, divorce and separation, and commitment worries.
That experience informs how she supports people during transitions and complex family roles. People can expect a respectful, calm approach focused on practical change.
Maureen aims to help people notice patterns, try small shifts, and build new ways of coping. She tailors sessions to the pace and goals each person prefers.
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Two common evidence-based techniques used in her work focus on practical skills and behavioral change. One approach emphasizes skill-building for managing anxiety and stress through breathing, pacing, and activity changes; it helps people lower day-to-day distress and respond differently to triggers. Another approach looks at communication and behavior patterns in relationships, teaching clearer ways to express needs and set boundaries to reduce conflict and isolation.Choosing the best method is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals, try approaches that fit each person, and adjust work as needed. Clients and the therapist decide together what feels most helpful and how fast to move.
Online sessions offer flexibility and many ways to stay connected. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share thoughts between sessions or fit support into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing family, work, or caregiving duties.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English