Catholic Counseling in Virginia and Maryland
Helping Catholics struggling with intrusive thoughts and anxiety to find peace and clarity through compassionate, faith-centered virtual therapy.
Live through your values, not your anxiety.
You’re looking for therapy that aligns with your faith and values.
Life can feel overwhelming when your thoughts won’t leave you alone. Maybe you’re constantly afraid you’ll make God mad, or you feel consumed by worries that you're a bad person because of what you think or feel. You might find yourself obsessing over every decision, unsure if it's your conscience speaking or something else.
These fears are real, and the weight they carry can feel unbearable.
But you don’t have to face this alone. Your thoughts don’t define you, and with the right support, it’s possible to regain a sense of control. Therapy can help you understand where these thoughts are coming from and how to live peacefully with them. You deserve to feel at ease in your own mind.
I am Maggie Maxwell, LPC, LCPC
Catholic Counselor in Virginia & Maryland
Using evidence-based methods, I guide you toward finding peace within your mind and faith.
Together, we’ll explore what’s going on inside and figure out what’s driving those feelings. I use different therapy techniques, depending on what works best for you. We’ll take time to look inward and understand you better, but we’ll also focus on making practical changes that can help you feel more in control of your life. My goal is to help you find relief and start feeling more like yourself again.
Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia & Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Maryland
Specializing in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
Focused on helping Catholics with OCD, intrusive thoughts, and anxiety
A compassionate and supportive approach to guide you toward healing
Our Services
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Anxiety & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Anxiety and OCD, including religious obsessions like scrupulosity, can take over your thoughts and actions. I can help you break free from the cycle and find lasting peace.
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Depression & Mood Disorders
Depression and mood disorders go beyond normal ups and downs, often leaving you feeling unlike yourself. I can help you regain stability and manage the intensity of your emotions.
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Maternal Mental Health
Maternal mental health includes challenges like postpartum depression, fertility struggles, and emotional changes during pregnancy, and therapy offers support to help you navigate every phase of motherhood.
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Life Stress & Transitions
Life transitions, whether starting college, changing careers, or moving, can be overwhelming, and therapy provides support to help you navigate these changes and even explore how they connect to your faith.
Find Peace Through Catholic Therapy:
Drawing on our faith to guide our mental healing
If this is your first time in counseling or your third try this year, it’s more than okay to wonder what to expect next.
In our work together, we focus in on where you’ve been and where you want to go. We take time for understanding your life up to now and holding space for introspection on your experience. We move forward with this insight through committed actions aimed at developing your emotional regulation, mental coping strategies, and perspective.
Our work together will provide the opportunity for you to grow in:
Self-awareness and ability to notice, identify, and reflect on emotions
New ways to develop patterns of thought and self talk that are oriented towards your values and life goals
Lifestyle changes oriented towards your greatest purpose and meaning
Deeper integration of your faith with your interior world of thoughts, emotions, and beliefs
How Therapy Works
Starting therapy may feel like a big step, but the process is simple and designed to meet you where you are. From our first conversation, we’ll work together to create a personalized plan that fits your needs and helps you move toward lasting peace and healing.
Step 1
Schedule Your Free Consultation
During this brief call, we’ll discuss your goals and how therapy can help.
Step 2
Receive a Personalized Therapy Plan
Together, we’ll create a therapy plan that fits your unique needs and situation.
Step 3
Begin Your Journey to Healing
Start attending sessions virtually, and together we’ll work toward peace and clarity.
You wonder if therapy is the right fit for you, and how it could help.
If you feel like your fears are controlling your life, it's easy to worry that things will only get worse if nothing changes. You may wonder if you’ll ever be free from the weight of your thoughts or feel connected to your faith again.
But it doesn’t have to stay this way. By taking the step to seek help, you can find relief. You can learn to live a fulfilling, faith-driven life without letting anxiety and doubt consume you. I’m here to guide you in moving past what’s holding you back, so you can reclaim peace, joy, and purpose in your daily life.
More about “Ora et Labora”
Pray (Ora)
We pray for what we need because our Father “desires to give us good things” (Matthew 7:11) and calls us to “let your requests be known to God” (Philippians 4:6-7), including our prayers for health & well-being.
Prayer serves as a fundamental principle in our work that opens us to being more able to acknowledge and receive God’s living word. An open, honest, and healthy relationship with our Father is one of the greatest tools to bring into or develop further in therapy.
Work (Labora)
We are called to complete the work God has placed in front of us by engaging in meaningful activities and fulfilling responsibilities, “committing to the Lord whatever you do” (Proverbs 16:3).
The work of therapy occurs in part during session, but in a larger way through the life lived between. This foundational principle of work aligns with the belief that our life’s meaning and purpose is found when we “know, love, and serve God” (CCC 1721).
“Always, we begin again.”
Ready to connect?
Start the conversation today.
Take the first step toward feeling more in control and connected. Compassionate, faith-centered therapy designed to help you heal.