About Margaret
Margaret Thomas- Lapsley is a licensed mental health counselor with sixteen years of experience. She supports adults facing anxiety, depression, major life changes, and relationship stress. Her work also encompasses trauma recovery and addiction-related concerns.
She focuses on helping people learn emotional regulation and set healthy boundaries. Sessions are collaborative and skills-based, with clear, practical tools you can use between meetings. She aims to help clients rebuild self-trust and find more stable ways of coping.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and relational. She creates a space where people can feel seen and understood without judgment. That approach is paired with techniques drawn from several evidence-informed methods to address symptoms and underlying patterns.
In therapy she blends talk and practice. Clients can expect to talk through painful memories and also practice new behaviors during and between sessions. The goal is steady progress toward greater clarity, healthier relationships, and improved day-to-day functioning.
Margaret brings focused attention to trauma, including childhood, military, and sexual trauma, and to issues like grief, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with substance concerns and the fallout from separation or infidelity. Her work aims to match realistic goals with concrete steps for change.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions by teaching skills to move toward meaningful goals despite difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical for reducing anxiety symptoms, managing mood, and building new coping strategies.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust methods over time so sessions remain relevant and effective for the individual's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video sessions let you work face to face from wherever you are. Phone work can be simpler when internet bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent momentum while learning new skills.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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