Maximiliano Nealon
Compassionate counselor blending talk and mindfulness
LPC Oregon
- Experience
- 10 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Family, Parenting
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English, Spanish
About Maximiliano
Maximiliano Nealon is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping individuals navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and life transitions. He draws on a collaborative, client-centered stance that emphasizes working with each person’s strengths and lived experience to build practical skills and insight.
Background and approach
With ten years of clinical experience, he blends talk therapy with mindfulness practices and solution-oriented techniques to address concerns such as grief, anger, parenting difficulties, compassion fatigue, and issues around identity and self-esteem. Nealon integrates cognitive behavioral strategies alongside Jungian and narrative influences, tailoring sessions to the needs and goals of the person in front of him.
He brings lived experience with meditation, movement practices, and music into treatment when useful, and attends to cultural context and multicultural concerns as part of therapy. Comfortable working in English and Spanish, he offers flexible formats to meet different preferences and helps clients explore life purpose, codependency, forgiveness, and related challenges with curiosity and practical guidance.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Therapy
Maximiliano combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with client-centered and mindfulness-informed work. CBT offers practical techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and cope with stress. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead and helps them access their own solutions, making it well suited to collaborative online sessions.Mindfulness-based elements are woven into sessions as practices for grounding, emotional regulation, and present-moment awareness. These practices often include short exercises, breath work, and attention training that translate effectively to remote formats and can be incorporated into a client's daily routine to support ongoing change.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist will work collaboratively with clients to select methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. This means testing techniques, adapting pace, and combining strategies so the work feels practical and personally meaningful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing clients to engage from home or other settings that fit their schedule. The variety of formats makes it easier to maintain consistency, try different ways of working, and access care even when life is busy or travel is difficult.
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Experience
10+ years
Licensed
Colorado, Oregon
Languages
English, Spanish