About Margaret
Margaret Lorenz is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She brings 26 years of experience and a steady, practical approach to sessions. Her style aims to make therapy feel manageable for someone juggling work, family, or life changes.
She focuses on clear tools and day-to-day strategies. In sessions she listens closely, helps people notice patterns, and works with them to try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Margaret uses methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches to address emotions and behavior. Her background includes long-term practice supporting people through grief, career transitions, compassion fatigue, and issues such as ADHD, eating difficulties, and intimacy questions.
She also helps those dealing with blended family concerns, codependency, commitment worries, and feelings of isolation or low self-worth. Margaret adapts conversations to each person's situation instead of following a fixed script. People who come to her can expect a collaborative process.
She treats clients as active partners and tailors the pace to what feels right. Sessions aim to produce practical changes - like better ways to manage anxiety, clearer communication in relationships, or steadier moods. If someone is ready to explore goals, improve coping, or navigate a life shift, Margaret offers straightforward, experience-based support to help move toward those goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Margaret uses a mix of client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques in online therapy. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's goals, which helps people feel heard and more able to find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical steps to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotions feel overwhelming. DBT skills teach ways to manage intense feelings, improve emotional regulation, and handle interpersonal stress with clearer boundaries. These approaches are chosen for their usefulness with anxiety, relationship strain, and coping with life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Margaret collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, pace, and preferences. That means trying strategies together, adjusting what isn't helping, and building on what is useful. The plan evolves as needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging works for shorter updates or when a written record helps reflection. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, childcare, or travel while keeping the focus on progress and real-world skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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