Maggie Shutey

Maggie Shutey is an LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Montana with 12 years of experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, eating concerns, and depression. Maggie describes her focus as helping people who feel stuck after change or loss and who are trying to find what matters next.

Maggie uses straightforward conversation to help clients name what feels most urgent. She helps people understand how past hurts affect current reactions. Sessions include practical coping tools and ways to notice patterns that keep problems repeating.

She also supports people facing attachment and relationship difficulties, body image problems, caregiver stress, and the emotional fallout from chronic illness or pain. Maggie talks through feelings of emptiness, guilt, shame, and issues around control or impulsivity.

Her work draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address things like panic, post-traumatic stress, and mood problems. She aims to break concerns into manageable steps so clients can test small changes between sessions.

Maggie asks clients to describe where they feel stuck and what they hope will be different. From there she and the client decide on practical next steps, such as learning new coping skills, changing unhelpful patterns, or working through painful memories. Sessions are offered in English and conducted from her Montana practice.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Evidence-based techniques form the core of her practice. One common approach focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. This method teaches practical skills for managing panic and low mood and helps people test new ways of responding in daily life.

Another approach concentrates on processing traumatic memories and their impact on current feelings. It involves pacing the work, developing coping skills first, and then gently addressing difficult memories so they interfere less with day-to-day functioning.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client review goals, symptoms, and preferences together and decide which methods to try first. That collaborative process can shift over time as needs change.

The biography does not list specific online session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, or allow for brief check-ins when a full session is not needed. Licensed professionals can adapt evidence-based techniques to a remote setting while focusing on practical tools and steps clients can use between meetings.