Maudeen Jordan

Maudeen Jordan is a licensed clinical social worker with deep experience helping people manage strong emotions. She combines practical coaching with counseling to help people who are angry, grieving, anxious, or facing big life changes. Maudeen keeps language simple and works alongside clients to find steps that fit their lives.

Maudeen began social work in 1972 and earned a graduate degree from California State University in San Jose. She completed her License in Clinical Social Work in 1990 and has worked in many settings since then. Her background includes supporting bereaved children and adults as a hospice bereavement coordinator and offering private counseling for depression, PTSD, anxiety, and grief.

Her approach blends methods she has used for decades. She values Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma, client-centered listening that highlights a person’s strengths, and practical tools like journaling to build self-understanding. She often suggests short exercises and communication skills to try between sessions.

Maudeen also draws on life experience from long-term caregiving and family life. That work shaped her focus on caregiver self-care and grief tied to changing beliefs. She describes herself as warm and approachable and sees clients as the expert on their own lives.

In recent years she closed an office, wrote a book, and began building an online coaching practice. She is open to combining life coaching with therapeutic work when that matches a person’s goals.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. Online sessions can provide the same attentive, accepting listening and space to name goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses practical exercises to shift thoughts and behaviors; it often includes short assignments between sessions that fit well with online follow-up. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used for trauma and involves structured processing of distressing memories; some clinicians adapt EMDR techniques for remote work when appropriate.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative step. The therapist will work with each person to decide whether coaching, client-centered talk therapy, CBT, or EMDR-like work is most useful for current goals. That choice can change over time as progress and preferences become clearer.

The biography indicates Maudeen has built an online coaching practice, but specific session formats are not listed. Confirm the current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people use journaling or homework between meetings. These practical benefits help people apply what they learn in day-to-day situations and keep therapy action-oriented.