About Margaret
Margaret Dunn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with 15 years of experience. She blends practical coaching ideas with counseling to help people break habits and move past stuck patterns. Her style is direct but compassionate, focused on helping clients make real, lasting changes in everyday life.
Margaret keeps sessions straightforward and goal-focused. She helps people name the problem, understand what keeps it going, and try new ways of responding.
How Margaret works
She often supports those struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, eating concerns, and low self-esteem. Her approach includes tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. She also draws on Emotionally-Focused and Existential ideas to help clients connect values with action and process deep emotions.
Sessions aim to reduce barriers that get in the way of goals like healthier habits, stronger self-worth, or clearer direction. Margaret pays attention to practical life issues too, such as sleep problems, career stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and communication difficulties. She works with people on topics like body image, codependency, divorce and separation, and recovery from trauma and abuse.
Her work often involves looking at the roots of habits and gently testing new behaviors. Clients can expect a mix of listening, skills practice, and planning. Margaret values growth, curiosity, and respect during the process.
She invites people to move beyond avoidance and try manageable steps toward the life they want.
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What Margaret works with
The areas below are the ones Margaret selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and goals
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and experiments, which can be helpful for stress, eating issues, and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an empathetic, nonjudgmental space where people feel heard and can discover their own solutions; this approach supports building self-esteem and processing grief.Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the process. Margaret works collaboratively to match tools to each person's needs, goals, and preferences. She may combine elements from different approaches so sessions feel useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, homework support, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.
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