Maxine Brown-Sartor, LPC

Maxine Brown-Sartor is an LPC - a Licensed Professional Counselor - with eight years of experience in the mental health field. She has worked in school settings as a school counselor and in the community as a behavioral specialist, providing behavior modification support to families and offering both individual and group therapy in home settings. She has guided parents toward community supports such as Family Connections and Developmental Pediatrics to help secure special education services for children with special needs, and she has worked directly with those children on social skills, independent living skills, and self-esteem.

As a mother of a child with special needs, Maxine brings personal insight into the frustrations and daily challenges that families can face, which informs her empathetic approach. She practices client-centered care with teens and adults across a range of concerns, emphasizing active listening and collaboration to help clients discover their own solutions. Maxine teaches and models techniques like positive self-talk, mindfulness, and journaling to support change, and she encourages clients to engage actively in the work of healing.

Maxine provides a nonjudgmental therapeutic environment and routinely assesses clients for any self-harm behaviors. She recognizes that sometimes people primarily need to be heard and to know it is okay not to feel okay, a need that has grown for many during the pandemic as individuals navigate depression, life balance, and questions about their place in the world. Her clinical approaches include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy, all applied with sensitivity to each client’s unique circumstances.