About Marguerite
Dr. Marguerite Allen helps adults who feel stuck by turning difficult feelings into manageable steps. She greets people with plain language and steady focus.
Her approach suits those who want clear guidance and a hands-on plan for change. Dr. Allen is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - LCMHC - based in North Carolina.
She has 25 years of experience and draws on several practical methods rather than one single model.
How Marguerite works
Sessions are grounded in real problems like anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, anger, and major life changes. She uses client-centered listening to understand each person’s priorities first. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are added to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills help with intense emotions and impulsive reactions. Work in the room often includes short exercises, goal-setting, and tools people can practice between sessions. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone needs help finding reasons to change.
Solution-Focused ideas keep conversations aimed at small, realistic steps forward. Dr. Allen also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, relationship and parenting stress, mood disorders, and cultural concerns.
She explains options plainly and helps clients pick approaches that fit their lives. Her style is steady, direct, and practical. Sessions are offered in English by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
The subscription-based model can be canceled at any time and scheduling follows therapist availability.
Marguerite lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Marguerite works with
The areas below are the ones Marguerite selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Dr. Allen commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy, which means she starts by listening closely to what matters most to the person and follows their lead to set goals. This approach helps people who need a supportive, respectful space to talk through feelings and priorities.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on method that looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. CBT includes exercises and small experiments to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which often works well when done in video or phone sessions where homework and follow-up are easy to share.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are added for people who struggle with strong emotions or impulsive behavior. DBT focuses on emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that can be practiced between sessions using text or messaging for quick check-ins.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can change over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how and when people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or be easier when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief skill reminders, and ongoing support between longer sessions.
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A practical next step
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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