About Mary
Mary Agnes "Maggie" Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Mental Health Service Provider (LPC-MHSP) practicing in Tennessee. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress, and offers steady support for those facing grief, trauma, or depression. Maggie aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people feel heard and understood.
She uses an individualized approach, shaping conversations and goals to fit each person's situation. That might mean practical tools for panic or sleeping problems, or talking through identity and LGBT concerns.
Background and approach
Maggie also works with people dealing with work strain, compassion fatigue, and relationship or intimacy-related struggles. Her background includes six years of clinical experience across a range of settings. She draws on several approaches to match the moment - from acceptance-based methods to emotion-focused work and story-oriented techniques.
This helps her address both immediate symptoms and longer-standing patterns. Sessions may include short-term, solution-focused planning or deeper exploration of past influences, depending on what the person needs. Maggie pays attention to cultural and life-context factors like adoption, immigration, or first responder experiences when relevant.
She aims to help people gain clearer direction and practical coping strategies. People who connect with her often want straightforward support and concrete steps they can use between sessions. She encourages small, manageable changes and checks in on progress over time.
Getting started involves a simple intake process and scheduling that fits each person's routine.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, panic, and life changes by teaching skills to stay engaged in meaningful activities. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and name core emotions and how those emotions shape close interactions and personal distress. It can be useful for intimacy-related concerns, grief, and working through strong feelings. Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and helps rewrite those stories in ways that open new possibilities and reduce shame.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to address. That may mean trying short-term, solution-focused steps first, then shifting to deeper emotional or narrative work as needed.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth for days with technical limits, and live chat or text messages offer quick check-ins or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options let people use therapy in ways that match their routine and comfort level.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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