About Margaret
Margaret Booth is a counsellor with 14 years of experience practising in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety and low mood. She also helps those coping with grief, motivation dips and issues with self-esteem.
Her style is calm and respectful, and she aims to make the first contact as straightforward as possible. Margaret adapts the conversation to each person. She listens to what matters most and then focuses on practical steps that suit daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - she helps clients set realistic goals and find ways to act on them between meetings. Her approach combines several evidence-informed methods. She uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and ACT techniques to help people decide what matters and commit to small changes.
Attachment-informed work and client-centred ways of listening are used to build a trusting working relationship. Margaret is comfortable talking about complex issues such as trauma, addiction, relationship difficulties and bipolar concerns. She also supports people with sleep or eating struggles, parenting strain, career stress and compassion fatigue.
The focus is on what the person wants to change and how to get there step by step. Practical arrangements are straightforward. Conversations can take place by video, phone, live chat or messaging.
She asks people to start with a short matching questionnaire so sessions can be scheduled to suit them.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values. It uses simple exercises to notice thoughts without being controlled by them and can ease anxiety and low mood.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and trying practical experiments to change them. It suits worries about anxiety, sleep, mood and day-to-day coping by giving clear techniques to practise between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust the plan as you progress. Margaret aims to work with you to select the techniques that feel most useful.
Online work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and exercises, phone calls can fit a short break at work, and messaging can help people who prefer written check-ins or want brief ongoing support. These options make it easier to attend sessions around everyday life and try techniques in the places you live and work.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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