About Magdelene
Magdelene Thebaud is an Illinois-licensed clinical social worker who supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, self-esteem concerns, and career transitions. She also attends to feelings of emptiness, isolation or loneliness, jealousy, and the development of self-love, offering attentive guidance for those navigating complex emotional experiences.
Background and approach
With three years of professional practice, Magdelene combines warmth and clinical focus to help clients identify what matters most and take practical steps forward. Her approach centers on understanding each person’s story and crafting tailored strategies that build resilience and foster personal insight.
She emphasizes collaborative, strengths-based work that encourages exploration of inner life and the cultivation of healthier patterns. Magdelene aims to create a supportive space where clients can practice self-compassion, grow coping skills, and move toward clearer goals related to relationships, identity, and career direction.
Practicing in Illinois under the LCSW credential, she draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape individualized plans rather than relying on a single method. Her style is accessible and nonjudgmental, focused on helping clients gain practical tools and emotional clarity over the course of therapy.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Magdelene uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical, skill-building work and emotional understanding. One approach emphasizes building coping skills and behavioral strategies to reduce anxiety and manage mood fluctuations; this method helps clients identify triggers, practice new responses, and track progress over time. Another approach concentrates on exploring self-worth and interpersonal patterns to strengthen self-esteem and address feelings of emptiness or isolation; it involves examining beliefs about the self and practicing self-compassion and healthier relationship habits.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Magdelene works with each client to explore their goals, preferences, and needs, and she adapts techniques as therapy progresses so the plan fits the individual rather than the other way around.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and maintain continuity between meetings. These formats allow licensed professionals to provide consistent support, whether the focus is symptom management, career-related decisions, or building greater self-love and resilience.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Self-love
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English