About Margaret
Margaret Elkins is a licensed professional clinical counselor who helps people manage anxiety and stress. She meets clients with a range of concerns, including depression, grief, addiction, trauma, body image struggles, and career or relationship stress. Her style is straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Margaret earned a Master’s in Mental Health Counseling from Eastern Kentucky University. She has worked in mental health for 15 years and has been a licensed therapist for seven years.
Background and approach
That background informs a calm, experienced approach to problem solving. In sessions she uses methods that help people make sense of difficult feelings and try different behaviors. Margaret draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also uses dialectical skills to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance. For clients with trauma or painful memories she incorporates EMDR to support processing those experiences. Motivational interviewing is used when change feels hard or motivation is low, for example with addictions or lifestyle shifts.
Her work is collaborative and practical. Margaret helps set small, achievable goals and checks progress each week. She aims to make therapy feel like a useful part of a busy life.
Online approaches that focus on skills and healing
Margaret commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR when working online. Cognitive behavioral therapy is about spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. EMDR helps people process distressing memories and can reduce the hold those memories have on daily life.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. These approaches are explained and adjusted together, so clients can try techniques and tell the therapist what helps. Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process based on a person’s goals, preferences, and what shows progress over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or quick support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while maintaining consistent treatment.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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