About Madalyn
Madalyn Mouanoutoua is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, eating concerns, or life transitions. She uses a calm, direct style and starts by listening to what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on practical steps that can be used between meetings.
Madalyn keeps sessions centered on the person in front of her. She uses somatic work to notice how the body reacts to stress and trauma.
Background and approach
She also draws on acceptance and commitment strategies and cognitive-behavioral tools to help people make values-based choices and change unhelpful thought patterns. Her experience includes five years of clinical practice in Minnesota, where she has worked with a range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, LGBT issues, chronic illness and pain, and struggles with body image and eating.
Madalyn pays attention to attachment wounds and patterns of codependency or abandonment that make relationships feel unsafe. In sessions she breaks skills into small steps and practices them together. She helps people track what works and what needs adjusting.
Treatment conversations include managing guilt, shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose. Madalyn invites prospective clients to describe their priorities and comfort level. She adapts the pace to match readiness and helps set clear, achievable goals.
The aim is to build skills that feel useful in everyday life.
How somatic and talk therapies translate online
Madalyn uses somatic work to help people notice how stress shows up in the body, then pairs those observations with concrete exercises. Somatic methods can include breath awareness, grounding practices, and gentle movement to reduce tension and increase present-moment noticing. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and choosing small actions that align with those values even when feelings are difficult. This approach is helpful for anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck. Finding the right method is a shared process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs and comfort level. Sessions can blend body-based practices with cognitive-behavioral or DBT skills as goals evolve. Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and let people use audio-only options when bandwidth is limited or being on camera is uncomfortable. Licensed professionals can adapt somatic and ACT exercises so they work in remote sessions and help people translate in-session practice into daily routines.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English