About Margaret
Margaret Packard-Motter greets people with a warm, straightforward approach. She is a licensed clinical social worker with an MD and more than three decades of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with grief, low self-esteem, depression, stress, anxiety, and major life changes.
Margaret uses clear, practical conversation to help clients name what feels hard. Sessions often focus on setting small, doable goals and finding ways to build confidence and everyday coping skills.
How Margaret works
She also supports people facing workplace strain, career decisions, or compassion fatigue from caregiving roles. Her background spans 35 years of practice across clinical settings. That experience includes work with aging and geriatric concerns, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and caregiver stress.
Those years have shaped a calm, steady style that aims to meet people where they are. In sessions she helps people talk through relationship and communication problems, reckon with feelings of emptiness, and find meaning or life purpose. She can also assist with seasonal affective disorder and challenges tied to workplace dynamics.
Margaret offers straightforward coaching alongside therapeutic support when people want help making practical changes. She encourages small steps that add up over time. Her goal is to help each person discover strengths they might have overlooked and use them to cope with what comes next.
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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches work online
Margaret draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and make practical changes. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments to reduce low mood and anxiety. This helps people spot thinking patterns that make problems feel bigger and try small, realistic shifts that can improve mood.Another approach emphasizes behavioral activation and activity planning to counter depression and isolation. It centers on scheduling meaningful or manageable activities to rebuild routine, increase pleasure, and reduce withdrawal. This is useful for people dealing with sadness, emptiness, or seasonal affective changes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then adapt techniques to fit their needs. Sessions mix practical coaching and therapeutic conversation so plans can be tested between meetings.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video sessions suit deeper conversations, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity over time.
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