About Margot
Margot Williams is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports clients dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strains, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She approaches therapy with compassion and an emphasis on collaboration.
She keeps sessions practical and goal-focused. Margot works with each person to set clear, manageable goals.
How Margot works
She highlights strengths and draws on solution-focused techniques to help people take small, useful steps forward. Cultural values matter to her work. She asks questions, listens closely, and avoids assumptions so care matches a person's beliefs and background.
That makes it easier to plan steps that feel respectful and realistic. Her methods include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based approaches, Client-Centered work, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Mindfulness practices. These approaches are used flexibly to match a person’s issue and preferences rather than following one fixed path.
Margot has particular experience with adoption and foster care, abandonment and attachment issues, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, family of origin problems, fatherhood issues, aging and geriatric concerns, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, DMDD, and communication or control problems. She aims to create a calm, practical space where people can talk through what’s most pressing and make concrete changes.
Margot lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Margot works with
The areas below are the ones Margot selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
How Margot’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck on them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thought patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce symptoms such as anxiety and low mood. It often includes practical exercises to practice between sessions. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she and the person decide which methods to try and adapt them over time in a collaborative way. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion and experiential exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or use written check-ins when speaking is difficult. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or busy schedules.Start online instead of waiting
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