About Margaret
Margaret Wilde uses a pluralistic, person-focused approach to counselling. She combines several therapies to match each person's needs. Margaret is a BACP counsellor with eight years of practice experience.
She aims to create a calm space where people can talk about stress, trauma and life changes. Before qualifying as a therapeutic counsellor, Margaret spent fifteen years in mental health and learning disability services. That background shaped her practical way of working and her focus on trauma recovery.
How Margaret works
Over time she has helped people manage anxiety, depression and difficult life transitions. Margaret adapts methods from cognitive behavioural therapy, psychodynamic thinking, attachment-based work and mindfulness. She uses what fits each person rather than one fixed method.
Sessions may include talking, noticing patterns, and simple practices people can use between meetings. She invites people to look at relationships, family of origin issues, and feelings like shame, guilt and abandonment. This can uncover why certain reactions happen and how to change them.
The goal is to increase self-awareness and strengthen how someone relates to themselves. People can expect a warm, non-judgemental space where the counsellor listens and reflects back what she hears. Margaret supports practical steps toward clearer goals, better coping with stress or trauma recovery, and building more helpful daily habits.
Margaret lists 8 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Practical therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It helps with anxiety, low mood and coping when life feels overwhelming. Attachment-based therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they influence current connections and trust. It can be useful when abandonment, attachment issues or family of origin concerns affect present relationships. Client-centred therapy puts the person at the heart of the work by offering empathic listening and space to explore feelings at a comfortable pace.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences and what has or has not helped before. Then she will suggest ways of working and adjust methods as sessions progress so the plan feels collaborative and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and richer non-verbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, quick reflection or when writing feels more helpful. These options make therapy more flexible and accessible for different routines and needs.
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