About Margaret
Margaret Dunn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of clinical experience. She draws on counseling and coaching perspectives to help people untangle patterns that cause stress and anxiety. Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at making change feel possible rather than overwhelming.
She focuses on everyday problems like emotional eating, low self-esteem, sleep troubles, grief, and burnout. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiving strain, and the aftereffects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at reducing distress and building skills that fit a client's life and values. Margaret uses a mix of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered principles. She helps people notice unhelpful habits, name the emotions under those habits, and test small changes that stick.
Sessions combine talking, practical exercises, and simple behavior steps to practice between meetings. Her style is compassionate and no-nonsense. She invites honest conversation and places emphasis on real-world strategies rather than quick fixes.
Margaret encourages clients to move past avoidance and take manageable steps toward goals they care about. Margaret works from Missouri and conducts sessions in English. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship worries, career changes, and other life transitions.
To start, prospective clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Practical approaches for online counseling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values, even when anxiety or fear is present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve sleep, mood, or eating patterns. Client-centered work creates a space where the person’s goals guide the pace and direction of therapy, with empathy and listening at the core.Margaret treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, try approaches that fit their needs, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That way clients help shape therapy rather than having a one-size-fits-all plan imposed on them.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and stay connected even when travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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