Maddie Decker, LPC

AdultsIn-Person Counseling (Richmond)Online Counseling (Virginia)Children 3-7Children 8-12Teenagers 13-17

Mar 7

Maddie helps young adults, teens and kids to overcome challenges, heal and build meaning in their lives.

Maddie has over a decade of experience working with children through adults.

With adults, her warm, empathetic nature helps clients open up and explore how to live more mindful and meaningful lives. She helps her clients overcome anxiety, depression, traumatic experiences, and borderline personality. Her approach is person-centered first, which means that she meets everyone where they are, and uses conversation and questions to help her clients process their thoughts and emotions. But she also utilizes modalities such as DBT, EMDR, and creativity-focused approaches.*

With children and teens, Maddie is playful and engaging. She utilizes games, play therapy, art and creativity (and even a sand tray!) in her sessions.

Throughout play, she sprinkles in mindfulness skills, emotion and self-regulation strategies, CBT and social-emotional learning. She has years of experience in schools and private practice working with children who struggle with anxiety, OCD, PTSD, depression, and ADHD.

Maddie also enjoys working with parents collaboratively to make parenting plans that honor the innate knowledge and wisdom parents bring to the table.

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On Pop Psychology: Are You Misusing these Mental Health Terms?

With the normalization of many mental health struggles, many of us have incorporated mental health terms into our daily conversations - sometimes misusing them. Are you misusing these terms?

Effective Therapy for Anxiety: Proven Techniques for Finding Relief

Discover the best treatments for anxiety, how therapy can provide relief, and helpful self-help tips to overcome anxiety in this comprehensive guide.

Should I Use Insurance to Pay for Mental Health Therapy?

Health insurance benefits that cover mental health therapy can be a life saver. But using insurance to cover the cost of counseling also has its drawbacks. This post describes the pros and cons of using health insurance benefits to cover mental health treatment.

Unlocking Hope: A Journey Through Person-Centered Therapy for Depression

The path for folks experiencing depression often feels lonely and hopeless. Person-Centered Therapy is rooted in human connection , empathy, and empowerment. Mark Loewen, LPC describes what this counseling approach for depression looks like.

5 Thinking Errors That Cause You To Self-Sabotage

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps us identify thinking errors that might hold us back and reinforce self-sabotage. 5 of these thinking errors are described by Philip Mitchel, LPC, an online therapist at LaunchPad Counseling in Richmond Virginia.

5 Tips For Finding A Good Therapist

Looking for a good counselor feels daunting. Where to begin? These tips help you navigate the journey of finding a therapist that will be a good match for you.

Should I Go To Therapy?

Why should I go to therapy? Are my concerns serious enough for counseling? A licensed professional counselor explains why it makes sense to go to therapy when your mental health is struggling.

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Therapy

What do you think when you hear the words “Counseling” or “Therapy?” Yes, therapy is tremendously beneficial. But check out these often unknown aspects of therapy, for a smoother ride in your counseling journey!

Connect With Your Kids Using Music - Tips By A Music Therapist

Music is therapeutic - and a powerful tool that can help you connect with people you love. These Music Therapist-recommended strategies will help you use music to improve relationships with your children, partner, or any loved one in your life.

Self-Abandonment: Are you doing it?

Self-abandonment is when we minimize our own desires or boundaries, to the detriment of ourselves. Tips on how to stop self-abandoning. And if you’d like a therapist’s support, we’re here for you.

Helping Your Child Survive and Thrive In School - All Year Long

Tips on helping your child survive and thrive in school. How to strategize, enlist supports, set SMART goals, and use mental health resources such as counseling or a family therapy.

Is It More Than Stress? 10 Signs to Watch

If you feel anxious and worried, or constantly tired and depressed, you may be experiencing more than regular stress. In this post, you’ll find 10 signs to know if you should take extra steps to feel better. A therapist can help you move through these, and toward a happier life.

When Does Protecting Your Kids Become Over-Parenting?

Tips for parents to avoid over-parenting, and allow children to be happier and more confident. Over-parented children are more insecure and and have lower self-esteem. These tips help parents to step back, avoid over-parenting, and allow their child to step up in confidence.

Telling Children About Divorce (Part 2)

Telling your children about the divorce is one of the hardest things you’ll do. This post is part 2 of 10 tips that will help you with advice on how to tell your kids about divorce in the most healthy and supportive way.

Telling Children About Divorce (Part 1)

Telling your children about the divorce is one of the hardest things you’ll do. These tips will help you with advice on how to tell your kids about divorce in the most healthy and supportive way.

Help I Don’t Like My Child: Launchpad Counseling featured on Daily Parent

When parents lose the connection with their children, they might feel that they don’t like their kids. Mark Loewen provides feedback on how to reestablish a strong parent-child relationship.

7 Powerful Ways to Manage Anxiety

Anxiety can be crippling and painful. These tips and advice can help you beat anxiety and feel better again. Overcoming anxiety is not easy, but it is possible. Start by managing your anxiety with these pointers.

How To Help Your Child Battle Anxiety

Tips and advice on how to help your anxious child overcome anxiety. Kids are affected by anxiety for many reasons, but there are also many thing parents can do to support their child and help them beat anxiety and feel secure again.

Parenting Isn't Easy: A Parent Coach Can Help

Parent coaching can help you tackle the most frustrating interactions with your children. Many parents are tired of the same power struggles. Parenting is a huge task. A parent coach can help!

Could Your Child Have Anxiety? Watch For These Key Signs

Childhood anxiety has an appropriate place in the lives of children, just as it does for adults. When there is real danger, your child’s body needs to activate important inner resources. But when fear and worry keep your child from friends and fun, from not wanting to leave your side, they may have anxiety.

Pride Month Events Across Virginia

All over Virginia, LGBTQ Pride events occur throughout the summer. This post includes a long list of events and places to celebrate Pride across the state, including Richmond, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Tidewater, and many more.

Could Play Therapy Benefit Your Teen?

Play Therapy for teenagers involves using games, art, and other creative outlets to help teens process their thoughts and feelings. It is our experience that teenagers enjoy their counseling sessions because they trust their therapist, who engages them according to their strengths and likes.

Let Healthy Relationships Help Your Healing Process

Our hurts did not occur in a vacuum. Most likely, they originated either from other people, or the absence of people. It makes sense then, that healing within a community can sooth our relation wounds. Community Healing is a term for finding healing by creating healthy relationships that help yo grow and heal the wounds from the past. Support your counseling process through healthy relationships.

Getting the Most out of Family Counseling

Family Therapy can help families communicate better and live with less stress. You can make Family Therapy more effective for your family, and get the most out of it, by following these steps.

How To Raise Kind Kids: 5 Tips

Parenting tips on raising kind kids, include leading by example, taking time for yourself, and maybe enlisting a parent coach or a child therapist.

You Don’t Have To Live Overwhelmed By Trauma - EMDR can help.

Standard talk-therapy often isn’t enough to stop the invasive memories or nightmares. That’s why therapists have additional modalities that are evidence-based, meaning effective and proven to decrease these painful trauma symptoms.

Maintaining Sobriety While Navigating Pride in Recovery

Maintaining your sobriety during Pride can be a challenge. Here are some tips to navigate LGBTQ Pride while in Recovery and have a great time.

Am I a Good Parent?

Parent guilt is a real thing. Many parents feel that they aren’t good enough at parenting. But, you actually might be. Here I list 5 things that good parents do.

How to Know if Your Child Needs Therapy

Children aren’t always able to express their feelings clearly, so they act them out. Child therapy can help kids overcome depression, anxiety, and the effects of ADHD or or experiences like parental divorce.

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