About Eileen
Eileen Madden is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She offers calm, practical support for parents and individuals navigating mood changes, addiction struggles, or the strain of caregiving. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Eileen uses clear, down-to-earth language in sessions. She helps clients name hard feelings and see them as signals rather than definitions of worth. Together she and the client learn skills to manage intense emotions and to reconnect with what matters most in daily life.
Background and approach
Her work draws on approaches such as acceptance-based work, attachment-focused ideas, and cognitive behavioral strategies. That means she mixes noticing and accepting feelings with steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She often includes practices that bring attention back to the body and to small, steady habits.
Eileen trained at Boston College for her undergraduate and graduate degrees. Over 13 years she has worked mainly in outpatient settings and in partial hospitalization programs. Her background includes supporting people dealing with anxiety, sadness, and anger across a wide age range.
She also brings life experience from teaching boxing, running, and participating in service trips. These activities shape how she encourages movement, routine, and small acts of self-care alongside talk work. Her approach aims to help people find more ease and a clearer sense of their strengths.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, grief, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections affect current relationships and can help people understand patterns in closeness, trust, and conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) identifies unhelpful thoughts and habits and practices concrete steps to change them, which often helps with anxiety, mood, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Eileen treats the choice of methods as collaborative and will help clients try different strategies until they fit each person’s goals and preferences. She draws from ACT, attachment ideas, and CBT to create a plan that matches the client’s needs.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier during a busy day. Text or chat formats support brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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