About Madeleine
Madeleine Saxe is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, eating concerns, relationship struggles, and parenting strain. She works with adults facing life changes and emotional challenges, offering direct and compassionate support.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on clear communication, problem solving, and developing day-to-day skills that make life feel more manageable.
Madeleine blends talking, skill practice, and goal-setting so clients leave with concrete steps they can try between appointments. She uses a mix of evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to address thinking patterns, habits, and motivation.
Dialectical behavior ideas also help when emotions feel intense or overwhelming. Madeleine explains techniques in simple terms and shows how they apply to each person's situation.
Madeleine has worked in the field for 12 years and brings that practical experience into sessions. She often helps people through parenting transitions, blended family shifts, fertility and postpartum concerns, and the strain of caregiving.
She also supports people dealing with body image, commitment and communication problems, and recovery from drug or alcohol addiction. Clients can expect a straightforward style that balances compassion with honesty.
Madeleine aims to help people reconnect with their values, reduce shame and guilt, and build routines that support long-term change.
How Madeleine’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and responding to what matters most to the client, helping people feel heard and guiding the conversation toward their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change habits effectively.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Madeleine will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on their goals, preferences, and how they respond in early sessions. That collaborative process helps tailor techniques so they fit into everyday life.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match what works best for each person. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer talk sessions. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit during a break. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, coaching in the moment, or a way to work without being on camera. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to maintain between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English