Maxine Brown-Sartor, LPC

Maxine Brown-Sartor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina with 8 years of experience in mental health care. She has worked as a school counselor and as a behavioral specialist in the community, assisting families with behavior modification strategies and offering both individual and group therapy in home settings. Maxine has guided parents toward community supports such as Family Connections and Developmental Pediatrics to help secure special education services for children with special needs, and she has supported those children in building social skills, independent living skills, and self-esteem.

As a clinician who works with teens and adults, she centers her practice on attentive listening and collaborative problem solving, helping clients identify practical steps toward change. She encourages evidence-informed techniques like positive self-talk, mindfulness, and journaling to shift negative patterns of thought and behavior, and she models these approaches so clients can learn how to apply them. Being the parent of a child with special needs gives her a personal perspective on the daily frustrations families can face, which informs her compassionate approach.

Maxine aims to create a nonjudgmental space and assesses for any self-harm behaviors when needed. She recognizes that sometimes people primarily need someone to hear them and to affirm that it is okay not to feel okay, especially during challenging times such as those following the recent pandemic.