About Margaret
Margaret Kei is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia who helps people handle stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that families and individuals can use right away. Her style is warm and supportive, and she aims to make conversations feel manageable for someone under strain.
Clients often bring concerns such as relationship strain, family problems, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and attention challenges.
How Margaret works
She also addresses issues tied to adoption and foster care, attachment struggles, impulsivity, isolation, panic, and post-traumatic stress. Margaret uses goal-focused methods to help people notice what changes feel most useful and realistic. Her work draws on client-centered techniques that put the person's experience first, along with cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses solution-focused and trauma-focused approaches when those fit the situation. Sessions are practical and aim to give tools that can be tried between meetings. Margaret brings 11 years of experience as an LCSW in Virginia.
She has supported people facing mood disorders, self-harm thoughts, social anxiety, and the stresses of young adulthood. She explains ideas in everyday language and helps clients set clear, achievable goals. People who prefer flexible communication can meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Her practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and she guides new clients through a short matching questionnaire to begin.
Margaret lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Margaret often uses client-centered therapy, which means sessions focus on the person's priorities and perspective. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients identify their own goals and next steps. This approach is useful for people who need space to sort out feelings and decide on priorities.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT breaks problems into small, workable steps and teaches techniques to change unhelpful thinking patterns. This can help with anxiety, panic, low mood, and stress-related behaviors.
Finding the right approach is part of the online work. Margaret will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort with different tools. She adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most and what feels doable for the client.
Online sessions can take place by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is low. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step problem solving, or when someone prefers writing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine and keep momentum between meetings.
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