Maggie Gets Real - Cathartic Counseling & Anxiety Coaching

Maggie Gets Real - Cathartic Counseling & Anxiety Coaching Because you were never broken—you just needed a space built for you.

I help childfree women untangle themselves from people-pleasing and perfectionism so they can finally take up space, breathe deeply, and build lives they don’t need to escape from.

What makes my approach different?It’s not just that I see potential you can’t see yet. It’s that I won’t let you leave i...
08/06/2025

What makes my approach different?

It’s not just that I see potential you can’t see yet. It’s that I won’t let you leave it buried.
I won’t let you hide from growth, even when it’s uncomfortable.

Because growth doesn’t have to feel like punishment.
I challenge you with compassion, not judgment. I tell the truth without shaming you.
I’m your biggest cheerleader and the first one to remind you when you’re selling yourself short.

Because therapy isn’t just about fixing problems. It’s so much more about building a life you actually want to live.
It’s about being seen fully, challenged kindly, and supported relentlessly.

That’s the work we do here.
No shrinking. No sugarcoating. No “just think positive” nonsense.
Just real, grounded, life-changing work.

💬 Ready to experience this for yourself? Book your consultation today.

✨ Signs you're not seeing your own worth:— You accept treatment you'd never accept for a friend— You apologize just for ...
08/03/2025

✨ Signs you're not seeing your own worth:
— You accept treatment you'd never accept for a friend
— You apologize just for existing
— You think everyone else deserves more than you
This isn’t just self-esteem. It’s survival mode. It’s people-pleasing as a trauma response.
And it’s something you can unlearn.
Join our small-group coaching circle this August:
🌿 People Pleasers Anonymous
Led by a therapist who actually gets it.
Learn how to:
💫 Regulate your nervous system
💫 Unpack shame + “not enoughness”
💫 Stop shrinking to fit
Link in bio or head to https://unapologeticallychildfree.com/links

You’d never let your best friend stay in a relationship where she was breadcrumbed.You’d never tell her she was too much...
08/03/2025

You’d never let your best friend stay in a relationship where she was breadcrumbed.
You’d never tell her she was too much, too needy, or too emotional.
You’d never ask her to dim her light just to make someone else more comfortable.

But when it’s you?

You accept the bare minimum.
You apologize for having feelings.
You convince yourself that everyone else deserves more than you do.

This is what happens when the world teaches women—especially childfree women—to prove our worth instead of resting in it.

In my People Pleasers group, we stop trying to earn our place.
We stop shrinking, softening, smiling on cue.

We learn to take up space.
With gentleness. With strength. With actual tools that work.

You don’t have to keep living like you’re the problem.
Join us this August. Let’s start untangling it all—together.

08/02/2025

You want to stop taking sh*t from people?
You’ve gotta stop taking it from yourself first.
The guilt. The shrinking.
The “I should be over this by now…”
The “I shouldn’t say anything—it’ll make things worse.”
But here's the truth:
You are not too sensitive.
You are not asking for too much.
You are not selfish for having boundaries.
The REAL work we do in therapy isn't about fixing you.
It’s about helping you remember who you were before all the shoulds.
Before the people-pleasing.
Before you learned that your needs were optional.
In my sessions, we regulate your nervous system.
We rebuild your self-trust.
And we unlearn the conditioning that told you to be nice instead of real.
If you’re tired of carrying the weight of everyone else’s comfort,
this is your sign to set it down.
You don’t have to shrink to be loved.
🪩 Ready to stop shoulding on yourself? Let’s talk.
[Link in bio to book a consult or join the People Pleasers Group this autumn.]
🧠 Therapy for childfree women + women done performing for everyone but themselves.

“I don’t know how I got here… I used to think I’d be the kind of woman who had it all together. Now? I can’t stand the s...
07/29/2025

“I don’t know how I got here… I used to think I’d be the kind of woman who had it all together. Now? I can’t stand the sound of my own voice.”

That’s what she said.
A woman sitting across from me who couldn't recognize herself anymore.

So we sat with it.
No judgment. No fixes. No performative positivity.

We unpacked the layers—
the pressure to be the strong one,
the burnout from carrying other people’s expectations,
the shame from not being who she thought she should be.

And slowly, she started to see herself again.

🪞 If this feels familiar, you’re not alone.
This is the kind of work we do in my sessions—real, honest, whole-human healing.

Coaching client. Story shared with permission.

👉 Ready to stop accepting less than you deserve?
1:1 and group spots open for autumn.

Most women don’t avoid therapy because they’re afraid of feeling.They avoid it because they’ve tried it before and walke...
07/26/2025

Most women don’t avoid therapy because they’re afraid of feeling.
They avoid it because they’ve tried it before and walked away thinking:
"Well, that was… fine. But nothing really changed."
It’s not just you.
You’re just ready for something more intentional.
✨ Therapy that isn’t just nodding and “how does that make you feel?”
✨ Support that holds you and helps you stretch.
✨ A process that gives you tools, not just takes your co-pay.
That’s what my groups are built around.
We use the REAL framework:
Regulate your nervous system so you’re not always in survival mode.
Explore your patterns without shame.
Align with your actual values (not what you inherited).
Liberate from the guilt, perfectionism, and people-pleasing.
We do it together.
In community.
In real time.
And it works.
Three groups are enrolling now:
💬 People Pleasers Anonymous — for women who give everything and still feel empty
📚 The Cathartic Book Club for Childfree Women — for those craving softness, clarity, and permission to rest…without judgement and a bit of self development on the side!
🧨 Compassion Fatigue in a MAGA society–for progressive women burning out while the world burns around them.
If 1:1 feels like too much right now, these are the next right thing.
Come sit with us. You deserve that much.

You’ve spent years gripping tight to control.Control over your schedule. Your body. Your world.Because every time someon...
07/16/2025

You’ve spent years gripping tight to control.
Control over your schedule. Your body. Your world.
Because every time someone else made the rules, you ended up hurt.
Exposed. Overlooked. Diminished.
So you became the strong one.
You built walls high enough to keep everyone else out.
You made backup plans for your backup plans—because if you’re prepared for every disaster, maybe you won’t have to feel so vulnerable.
But here’s the hard truth:
All that control? It’s not keeping you safe.
It’s keeping you stuck.
Therapy isn’t about handing your power over to someone else.
It’s about finally learning how to hold it without white-knuckling.
Here’s what we do:
✨ We calm your nervous system so you don’t feel like you’re on high alert 24/7.
✨ We untangle the fear that’s been running the show.
✨ You learn to respond to the chaos without trying to control every inch of it.
This isn’t about giving in.
It’s about getting free.




You’ve gotten so good at pretending you’re fine.Smiling. Nodding. Making the jokes that keep things light so no one noti...
07/14/2025

You’ve gotten so good at pretending you’re fine.
Smiling. Nodding. Making the jokes that keep things light so no one notices how heavy it’s been for you.

At some point, the “I’m fine” act starts to cost you.
It costs you rest.
It costs you joy.
It costs you the chance to feel like your life actually belongs to you.

The women I work with are high-functioning, thoughtful, hilarious—and exhausted.
They don’t want more worksheets.
They don’t want another thing to perform.

They want space.
Space to be messy. Space to feel. Space to figure out who they are without everyone else’s expectations.

That’s what we do in my Cathartic Coaching groups.
We laugh. We cry. We unlearn all the patterns that have kept you stuck in survival mode.

And if you’re ready for something deeper…
this is your sign.

The Autumn groups are enrolling now!

Click the link in my bio!

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Houston, TX

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 12:30pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 12:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 12:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 12:30pm
Friday 9:30am - 12:30pm

Telephone

+18324226731

Website

https://www.catharticcounseling.com/

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