About Maysun
Maysun Elnihum is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar symptoms, and addictions. She also supports individuals facing relationship and family concerns, grief, anger, career changes, and compassion fatigue. Parents worrying about attachment, adoption or foster care issues, abandonment, and body image will find practical, direct support here.
Maysun brings eight years of experience from work in independent practice and psychiatric facilities.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward methods to help people notice unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. Sessions focus on clear steps clients can try between meetings and on small changes that add up over time. Her style is warm and down-to-earth.
Conversations aim to be honest and nonjudgmental, so people can say what is really on their mind. She pays attention to how daily habits, relationships, and past events shape present feelings and behavior. Maysun draws on several therapy approaches to match a person’s needs.
She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thinking, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. Motivational interviewing is used when someone wants help finding reasons to change. Getting started is simple: complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make ongoing work easier to fit into busy lives.
Therapeutic approaches and practical online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people get clear about what matters to them and take small actions in that direction even when emotions feel strong. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and for people stuck in avoidance patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life actions so behavior and mood can shift. It often helps with anxiety, mood problems, and stress. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a listening, nonjudgmental stance that helps people feel heard and steer their own goals; this approach supports exploration of values and identity.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which strategies match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and long sessions, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging provide quick, ongoing touchpoints between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping progress consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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