About Maggie
Maggie Lemley is a licensed professional counselor who brings 15 years of mental health experience to her work. She practices in Kentucky and holds LPC and LPCC credentials. Maggie creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can look at what’s not working and try different ways to feel better.
She aims to move past short-lived relief from venting and toward lasting change. Sessions focus on building awareness, processing emotions, and learning new habits that reduce emotional suffering.
Background and approach
Maggie frames therapy as a collaborative effort to find practical steps forward. Her background includes many roles in community mental health and intensive outpatient settings. She has experience supporting people with severe and persistent mental illness and has provided services in correctional and military-related contexts.
That history informs a direct, steady approach to complex problems. Maggie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and regularly updates her skills through professional trainings and conferences. She works with a broad range of concerns including anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, ADHD, and burnout or compassion fatigue.
People who choose Maggie can expect clear conversation, goal-focused planning, and practical coping strategies. She helps clients set priorities, try manageable changes, and track progress over time.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Many of Maggie's methods are evidence-based and practical. Cognitive-behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. These techniques help people break cycles of worry and build coping skills for day-to-day life.Skills-based therapies emphasize emotional regulation and distress tolerance. That means learning concrete strategies to manage strong emotions, reduce impulsive reactions, and improve relationship communication. Such skills are useful for stress, anger, trauma recovery, and recurring mood problems.
Choosing the right approach is a team process. Maggie works with each person to clarify goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. She frames therapy as collaborative so clients shape the work according to their needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth situations, live chat offers a typed back-and-forth, and text messages support short updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options aim to make consistent care easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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