About Margaret
Margaret Paul is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks plainly and listens first, then works with each person to build practical ways to feel steadier. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation.
Her approach centers on understanding where someone is now and what gets in the way of feeling better. She uses client-centered methods to follow the person's lead and to create a comfortable space for honest talk.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that fuel worry and low mood. Margaret also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when strong emotions or chronic stress make daily life harder. Mindfulness techniques are offered to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and focus.
Motivational Interviewing supports people who struggle with motivation, addictions, or making changes they want to keep. She has worked with people facing grief, life transitions, career challenges, parenting stress, and relationship strain. Margaret pays attention to compassion fatigue and issues related to veterans and armed forces when they come up.
Her work includes addressing self-esteem, loneliness, and questions about life purpose. Sessions are tailored to each person's goals and pace. Margaret encourages small steps and practical tools that can be used between meetings.
She acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the process clear and manageable.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening deeply and following the person's concerns. The therapist reflects what she hears and helps clients find their own solutions, which fits well for stress, grief, and life-change conversations.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It offers concrete tools for managing anxiety, low mood, and sleep difficulties by testing unhelpful beliefs and practicing new actions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. These tools are useful when strong feelings, chronic stress, or relationship conflicts make daily life harder.
Margaret will work collaboratively to choose the best combination of these approaches based on goals, needs, and what feels most comfortable. She checks in about what is helping and adjusts the approach over time so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports quick notes or reflections between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit work on anxiety, coping skills, or motivation into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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