About Eileen
Eileen Madden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and a wide range of life challenges. She works with adults on concerns like depression, addictions, intimacy issues, parenting stress, and ADHD, and offers sessions in English and Spanish.
Eileen emphasizes reconnecting with the body as a path to healing. She uses somatic practices to help people notice how feelings show up physically.
Background and approach
That often makes intense emotions easier to understand and respond to without getting stuck. Her clinical style blends practical talk with body-focused tools. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to challenge unhelpful thinking.
She also uses attachment-based and client-centered approaches to build safety and clarity in sessions. Eileen holds an undergraduate degree and a masters degree from Boston College and brings 13 years of experience in outpatient and in-home settings. Her background includes work in partial hospitalization programs and with people across the lifespan, from early childhood contexts to older adults.
Outside of therapy she values physical health and movement, and she teaches boxing and runs regularly. She has participated in international service work and studied abroad in Ecuador. Those experiences inform her perspective on culture, resilience, and spiritual connection.
People who choose Eileen often want a therapist who combines body awareness with practical strategies. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging and accepts international clients. New people begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Combining body-focused work and evidence-based methods online
Somatic work helps people notice where emotions live in the body and develop simple practices to release tension. It can be helpful for stress, trauma-related reactions, and chronic tension that shows up physically. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to make room for difficult feelings. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and decisions about meaningful change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Eileen will work with each person to try techniques and see what fits their needs and goals. Sessions adjust over time as progress, preferences, and life circumstances change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face connection while phone, live chat, or text-based messaging provide different ways to stay connected between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and travel, and allow continued work when in-person meetings are not practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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