Therapy Approaches | Maggie Doolan

Ways We Might Work Together

Every person who finds their way to me is carrying something different. A demanding career. A family system that's never quite felt safe. A relationship that left more of a mark than anyone else seems to understand. Or simply years of wanting to be truly known, not just managed.

Whatever brought you here, what you can expect is the same. Clinical rigor, real warmth, discretion you never have to ask for, and a therapist who moves at the pace your life actually requires.

Narcissistic Abuse Recovery

This is where my deepest expertise lives, and honestly, the work I care about most. If you've spent months or years trying to explain what happened to you, only to feel like no one quite gets the shape of it, this is the specialty built for exactly that.

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Traditional Therapy

Individual, couples, and family therapy for adults navigating relationship challenges, trauma, life transitions, and patterns that may be getting in the way of living well.

Couples Therapy

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Therapy Intensives

Some things simply cannot be untangled in fifty minutes a week, and I've built a piece of my practice specifically around that reality.

Intensives give us extended, uninterrupted time together, often a half day, a full day, or even multiple days in a row, so we can move all the way through something instead of circling it session after session for months. Rather than reopening the same wound every Tuesday and closing it again before we've really gotten anywhere, we stay with it until there's genuine movement.

This format tends to work beautifully for a few kinds of people. Busy professionals and parents who can carve out focused time but not an endless weekly slot. Clients who've done years of talk therapy and feel like they understand everything intellectually but still feel stuck. And anyone facing a specific, defined issue, a relationship ending, a family crisis, a pattern they're finally ready to break, who wants real traction instead of slow, incremental progress.

We'll design the structure of your intensive together based on what you actually need, not a fixed template. Most clients leave with more clarity and relief than months of standard sessions would have given them, along with a concrete plan for what comes next

Couples Therapy

Retreats

Some of the most honest conversations of my career haven't happened in an office. They've happened outside, away from a screen, away from a calendar, and away from the version of yourself you perform for everyone else in daily life.

I lead retreats in beautiful, remote settings, most recently in Montana, where the pace of everything slows down enough for real work to actually happen.

There's something about fresh air, distance from your usual routines, and the absence of every small performance we put on at home or at work, that lets people drop their guard faster than they ever expected to.

Retreats bring together individual reflection, guided therapeutic work, and simply the experience of being somewhere beautiful while you do some of the hardest thinking of your life.

They're especially powerful for people processing a major life transition, recovering from narcissistic abuse, or simply craving space to breathe while they do this work, rather than squeezing it into the margins of an already full life.

If the idea of healing somewhere expansive, rather than in a small room on a schedule, appeals to you, this may be exactly the format you've been looking for.

Psychedelic Assisted Therapy

For clients who are ready to go further than talk therapy alone can take them, I offer psychedelic assisted therapy within a fully clinical, carefully held process.

This isn't a trend, a shortcut, or something I approach casually. It's structured, deliberate, and integrated with the same rigor I bring to every other part of my work.

Psychedelic assisted therapy can access material that stays out of reach in a standard session, especially for people who are highly intellectualized, used to being in control, or who have spent years understanding their story without ever quite feeling it shift.

The nervous system holds onto things the mind has already figured out, and this modality helps bridge that gap.

Every session is carefully prepared for, held with full clinical support throughout, and followed by integration work so that what surfaces actually translates into lasting change, rather than a powerful experience that fades without impact.

I'm certified in this work specifically because I've seen what becomes possible when it's done with real structure and real care.

EMDR and Trauma Therapy

Trauma doesn't just live in your thoughts. It lives in your body, your nervous system, and the automatic reactions that kick in long before you've had a chance to think.

EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is one of the most well researched approaches for helping the brain finally process memories and experiences that got stuck rather than resolved. Instead of talking through an event over and over, EMDR helps your nervous system move through it in a way that actually changes how it's stored, so it stops hijacking your present the way it has been.

I use EMDR with clients working through all kinds of trauma, from single distressing events to the kind of prolonged relational trauma that builds up over years, including the aftermath of narcissistic abuse. It's often one of the fastest ways I've seen people move from simply understanding what happened to them, to genuinely feeling different because of the work we've done together.

Individual, Couples, and Trauma Focused Therapy

Alongside the specialties above, I also offer the foundational work that's been the heart of my practice for years, individual therapy, couples work, and trauma focused care using EMDR and other evidence based approaches, delivered in the more familiar rhythm of weekly sessions.

Not everyone needs an intensive or a retreat right away, and that's completely fine. Sometimes the right next step is simply a steady, ongoing relationship with a therapist who sees the whole picture, understands your history, and won't rush you toward conclusions before you're ready for them.

I work with clients navigating anxiety, mood concerns, compulsive behaviors, complicated personality patterns, relationship strain, and the kind of phase of life crises that don't fit neatly into a diagnosis but reshape everything anyway.

This work is just as central to what I do as any of the specialties above, even though it's listed here after them. For many clients, it's exactly where we start, and sometimes exactly where we stay.

When One Therapist Isn't Enough, I Build a Team

Some situations genuinely call for more than one clinician, and pretending otherwise doesn't serve anyone.

When a family, a couple, or an individual needs deeper support than weekly individual therapy can provide, I put together a coordinated team of providers I trust completely, chosen specifically for the situation at hand rather than pulled from a generic referral list.

That might mean a psychiatrist, a family therapist, a somatic practitioner, or additional specialists, all working in communication with each other and with you.

This model exists because I've seen too many people funneled into residential treatment or intensive outpatient programs that couldn't individualize enough to actually fit their lives, or that pulled them entirely out of daily life at a moment when practicing real life, with real support in place, would have served them better.

For clients managing mental health concerns or substance use alongside relational trauma, this can be a genuine alternative, built around your actual circumstances rather than a program's fixed structure.

Not Sure Where to Start? Neither Do Most People.

Tell me what's going on. We'll figure out the right approach together.