About Margaret
Margaret "Maggie" Barrington is an AASW-accredited social worker with 25 years of counselling experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and the strain of caring for others. Maggie works in a calm, practical way that aims to leave clients with tools they can use day to day.
She believes feeling stuck is a sign that something in life needs to change, not a sign of failure.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and down-to-earth. The emphasis is on small, manageable steps that add up over time. Maggie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that are explained simply.
She helps people make sense of difficult feelings and build confidence to move forward. Conversations often include practical strategies for coping and improving routines. Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, self-esteem concerns, and major life transitions.
She also supports people facing compassion fatigue, chronic illness, cancer, ageing and caregiver stress. Maggie attends to both immediate problems and longer-term adjustments. People meet her for help with communication problems, relationship endings, eating and body image concerns, and grief at end of life.
She aims to create a respectful environment where people feel heard and ready to try new approaches. Her practice is in Australia and all sessions are offered in English. Maggie encourages anyone who is ready to look for change to take the first step and explore what a few conversations might achieve.
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy options
Margaret uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques that help people manage symptoms and build practical coping skills. One common approach focuses on teaching skills for managing anxiety and stress - such as breathing, grounding and activity planning - to reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Another approach helps people process trauma and distress by pacing conversations, building safety, and developing tools to manage strong emotions so day-to-day life feels more manageable.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Maggie will listen to your concerns and collaborate on which techniques fit your goals and preferences. She adapts methods over time, checking in to make sure the plan remains useful and realistic for your situation.
Online therapy gives flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, want ongoing check-ins, or need more day-to-day support. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring roles, or mobility limits while keeping the focus on practical progress and real-life change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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