About Margaret
Margaret Mortensen is a Florida psychologist with 33 years of clinical experience. She provides steady, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, eating concerns, and major life changes. Her manner is warm and direct, with room for humor when it helps people breathe and move forward.
She uses practical, collaborative methods in sessions. That often means talking through current problems, learning skills to manage intense feelings, and trying small experiments between meetings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and on steps that fit daily life. Margaret draws on client-centered methods to create an accepting space where people can speak openly. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going.
When emotions run high, she includes strategies from dialectical behavior work to help regulate feelings and improve communication. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, intimacy issues, parenting stress, career pressures, identity and LGBT issues, body image and eating-related problems, and chronic health or caregiving stress.
She also supports people coping with bipolar mood patterns and grief from major losses. Margaret offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging for clients in Florida and elsewhere. She holds the FL Psychologist PY4165 credential and works in English.
To begin, people complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy emphasizes understanding the person's perspective and creating acceptance. It focuses on listening carefully, reflecting concerns back, and helping people find their own answers to ongoing problems. That style can be helpful for people who need space to process emotions and clarify goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. CBT is practical and often includes short homework tasks between sessions to practice new skills.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It can help when strong feelings, relationship conflict, or impulsive urges get in the way of daily life.
Margaret treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then tailor sessions to match. That lets the work shift over time as new issues appear or progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls make it easy to meet face-to-face without travel. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter touchpoints, ongoing support, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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