About Margaret
Margaret Swanson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and changes in life. She brings 25 years of experience to practical, down-to-earth therapy that focuses on real problems and real solutions. She listens first and asks simple questions to understand what matters to the person in front of her.
Sessions focus on clear goals: reduce overwhelming feelings, improve coping, and build stronger day-to-day routines.
How Margaret works
She uses straightforward tools people can try between sessions. Her approach blends several methods so work in therapy fits each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps spot and shift unhelpful thinking.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages valued action even when feelings are hard. Attachment-based ideas shed light on relationship patterns. Margaret also uses techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and client-centered work to help people regulate emotions and feel heard.
She supports those facing parenting strain, career stress, identity questions, chronic health challenges, and concerns like ADHD or codependency. Her practice style is steady and practical. She helps people set small, doable steps and tracks progress together.
People leave sessions with clear next steps rather than vague advice. Margaret practices in Vermont as a licensed independent clinical social worker - LICSW. Sessions are offered in English and she connects with clients by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Margaret lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Vermont |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and still choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps. That makes therapy a collaborative process where the choice of techniques grows from what a person needs and prefers.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care fit different schedules and situations. Video is helpful for a full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat allow quick check-ins, reflection between sessions, and flexible pacing. These options help people balance therapy with work, caregiving, or travel while keeping progress steady.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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