Maggie Q. Karoff, LCSW, LICSW
Therapy, council, ritual, and creative mentoring for those navigating transformation — personal, collective, and ancestral.
Hello, I'm Maggie.
The calling driving my offerings is to help people remember who we are, choose who we are to become, and walk forward in a life of presence, embodiment, and thriving.
Current Offerings
Individual Sessions
- Individual therapeutic work for those in transition, awakening, or navigating anxiety, depression, or the process of putting one’s fragmented self back together in the wake of trauma.Group Council Practice - held both indoors and out among the trees, waters, and open sky, council is a practice as old as humans sitting around a fire that facilitates access to the transformative power of stories and deep listening in communityRitual Consultations - Support for crafting personal or communal rituals to mark significant thresholds in life including, but certainly not limited to, birth, death, union, divorce, menarche, menopause, “retirement,” entrance into recoveryShamanic Practice Education - for those seeking deeper relationship with the more-than-human world and all the forces available to us in the co-creation of our individual, collective, and ecosystemic wellbeingCreative Mentoring - For writers, facilitators, space-holders, activists, business people and other creatives nurturing new workWilderness Guiding - for folks seeking to get outdoors with someone well equipped in managing risk, logistics, and relationship with the more-than-human world in wilderness settings in Wabanaki territory (Maine) and beyondSessions are held in person or online. For in person sessions, I am primarily rooted in Midcoast Maine (Belfast), though I am also available quarterly in the Boston area and more sporadically in the Mojave Desert, Big Sur, and Mexico.
Who I work with
I work with people who sense that life could be more than just survival.Some are living through deep transitions—endings, beginnings, losses, initiations.Some carry trauma and are ready to begin (continue) deep healing.Some find themselves stuck in cycles of anxiety, depression, or disconnection—people leading ordinary lives who know in their bones that something sacred is just out of reach.I work with people who carry a quiet commitment-- to themselves, their loved ones, and life itself—to find a way back to presence, again and again and again.Over the years, I have experienced powerful synergy in my work with people who are:Sensitive and Deep-Feeling
Folks who who feel things in their bones and bodies and hearts and nervous systems and may not always have language for what they’re sensing so deeply, but are yearning to find it and relate to it more deeply.In Transition or Threshold Moments
People navigating personal, relational, or cultural shifts—crossroads, initiations, endings, or emergent beginnings.Visionary but Overwhelmed
Those who carry a deep desire to make a difference, to live in integrity, to act meaningfully—but who may feel scattered, stuck, exhausted, or unsure of how to ground their vision.Rooted in Interconnection
People who already intuit or believe that their healing is bound up with the healing of others—who are curious about systems, ancestors, land, and collective care. I support people to feel more at home in the web and more confident in their roles.Makers, Thinkers, Feelers
Artists, therapists, facilitators, caregivers, builders, teachers, or folks who don’t fit any neat category but who love to make meaning and bring beauty into the world, especially if it nourishes others.Longing for the Sacred
Not necessarily in a religious sense, but in the way of reverence, deep presence, and remembering. People who crave beauty, depth, ceremony, joy, and reconnection with something larger than themselves.I work with people who want to feel more alive and present in their everyday lives. I trust your instincts and am happy to work with anyone who resonates strongly with my work.
About Maggie
I bring a grounded, attuned presence to this work—calm, clear, and deeply human.People often describe our work together as illuminating, uplifting, expansive, and quietly transformative. Many describe feeling a sense of relief, as if something inside them can finally breathe again. There is often more space, more clarity, more connection. Sometimes an upwelling of creativity. A remembering. A returning to what matters.I’ve spent the past twenty years walking through the terrain of healing and becoming—across city streets and mountain trails, courtrooms and council circles, trauma recovery and sacred ceremony. Before private practice, I worked in foster care across the five boroughs of New York City, served immigrant families in Boston and the North Shore, supported teens and young adults in residential wilderness therapy, and held therapeutic space for individuals, couples, families, and groups in rural Maine. I’ve waited tables, worked on boats, criss crossed the country aboard a veggie oil powered nonprofit school bus teaching about climate change, and traveled in pilgrimage and apprenticeship in the Mayan world.I hold master’s degrees in Social Work and Kinesiology, and I am a Registered Maine Guide. I’ve trained in Internal Family Systems, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, council practice, ancestral healing, Buddhist meditation, shamanic practice and healing, and trauma recovery. This clinical grounding is matched by my eternal apprenticeship to the natural world and the unseen layers of reality that shape our lives—relationships with land, ancestors, dreams, and the wisdom of the body. The more-than-human world has taught me what regulation, resilience, and renewal feel like, and I bring that embodied understanding into every session.My work is shaped by the belief that healing happens in our nervous systems, in our relationships, in the stories we tell, in how we move through thresholds, and in how we come home to ourselves and our world, again and again. My devotion is to tending the human spirit with gentleness, curiosity, and a deep trust in each person’s inner wisdom, and in the integral role that each person’s wellbeing plays in the thriving of humanity and our planet. I’m here for the quiet moments of transformation— the ones that restore dignity, reawaken joy, and rekindle relationship with life itself.I live on Wabanaki land where the tides, trees, seasons, and stones are part of every conversation. I’m a daughter, a sister, an aunt. I’m a lifelong student of both silence and song. I believe that change is possible (mandatory, inevitable even). And I love this work.
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