About Maureen
Maureen Connell uses relationship-focused approaches to help people understand how connections shape feelings and behavior. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, based in New York with 15 years of clinical experience.
Background and approach
Maureen aims to make conversations feel calm and straightforward so parents and adults can talk about what matters most. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles.
She also supports those dealing with relationship concerns, LGBT issues, and questions about life purpose and isolation. Her work includes attention to attachment wounds, family of origin issues, and the effects of trauma and substance use on daily life.
In sessions she keeps language plain and practical. She combines ideas from attachment work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotion-focused therapy to build understanding and change unhelpful patterns.
Therapy can include skill-building, reflecting on relationship patterns, and practicing new ways to communicate. Maureen prefers a warm, accepting tone and encourages direct talk about what is hard.
She helps people set clear goals, try small changes between sessions, and notice what improves. Treatment plans are adjusted to each person’s pace and circumstances.
People choose Maureen when they want steady guidance and realistic tools. She works with cultural differences and identity concerns as part of each person’s story.
Her approach aims to help clients feel more connected to themselves and to the people around them.
How attachment and skills-based approaches translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape emotional reactions today. Online sessions use conversation and focused reflection to identify patterns of closeness and distance and to try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers empathic listening, and helps people name what matters most so they can set practical goals and try small changes between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Together they choose or blend approaches that fit the individual and adjust over time based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues matter and for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, on-the-go support, or practicing new skills between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around school, work, and family commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English