Maureen O’Connell, LCMHC

Maureen O’Connell is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina with 21 years of professional experience. As an LCMHC - Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - she brings a trauma-informed lens to work with anxiety, obsessive-compulsive concerns, and complex relational and family patterns. Maureen emphasizes how parts of the self can interfere with being present, calm, and intentional, and she helps people identify gaps between their values and everyday functioning.

Her clinical approach blends compassionate care with evidence-based methods including cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance and commitment ideas, exposure and response prevention, mindfulness-based techniques, and principles from attachment and family-systems work. She also integrates internal family systems and psychodynamic perspectives when they serve the client’s goals. This flexible combination of approaches aims to teach skills that interrupt anxiety cycles and support steady progress over time.

In her private practice, Best Self Therapy & Wellness, Maureen focuses on helping individuals and families not only cope but move toward healing and greater well-being. She works with a range of concerns - stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, family of origin issues, guilt and shame, infidelity, isolation, panic, obsessions and compulsions, and post-traumatic stress. Maureen’s practice centers on patience, curiosity, and steady collaboration to support clients as they take courageous steps toward change.