Maureen Tillman has been a psychotherapist for thirty-five years treating adolescents, adults and families. Her clinical expertise includes counseling a myriad of life transitions: marriage, becoming a family, divorce, remarriage, college launching, death, and suicide.
Tillman specializes in the complexity of issues related to young adults having a successful college experience and becoming competent/independent adults. She counsels a wide range of personal challenges, from relatively healthy young adults and their parents to students with significant learning issues/mental health issues and disabilities.
Over the years she has provided a variety of suicide prevention/depression education programs and fought the stigma of mental illness and suicide. She created, College with Confidence, a proactive service, (suicide prevention) that encourages a variety of life skills that will keep young adults from “sinking” by helping them to be realistic about themselves and reach out for help when needed. She provides educational and counseling services for the parents, empowering them to parent in a style to encourage life skills (vs. “helicopter parents” and “bubble wrapping” their kids.)
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