About Maggie
Maggie Lemley is a licensed professional counselor who brings 15 years of experience to her work. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through stress, anxiety, grief, relationship problems, and other struggles. Maggie aims to help clients gain awareness, process emotions, and find practical steps forward.
She spent much of her career in community mental health. That background includes roles as a case manager, assessment clinician, and therapist in intensive outpatient settings.
Background and approach
Maggie has experience supporting people with severe and persistent mental illness as well as working in correctional and community contexts. Her practice includes work with people facing trauma and abuse, parenting and family stress, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar, and challenges like ADHD, eating or sleeping difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
She has also worked with military service members and their families in recent years. Maggie holds counseling licenses in Tennessee and Kentucky - LPC and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC. She attends professional trainings and conferences each year to stay current with evidence-based techniques and practical approaches.
In sessions she focuses on helping people move beyond temporary relief toward lasting change. Conversations aim to identify patterns, build coping skills, and set small achievable goals. Maggie encourages collaboration so people leave with clear steps they can use between sessions.
How Maggie Uses Evidence-Based Tools Online
Many of Maggie's approaches focus on helping people understand patterns and build practical skills. One commonly used method is cognitive behavioral work, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches specific coping strategies to change them. This approach can help with anxiety, mood issues, sleep, and managing upsetting thoughts.She also uses trauma-informed approaches that help people process painful memories and reduce their emotional charge. These techniques break down overwhelming experiences into manageable steps so progress can happen without becoming stuck. For relationship and emotion regulation concerns, skills drawn from dialectical approaches can help people tolerate distress, communicate more clearly, and manage strong emotions.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Maggie discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts techniques to what fits best. She works collaboratively so treatment reflects the client's needs and life circumstances.
Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, ask questions between sessions, or choose a format that fits a busy schedule. These options help make ongoing therapy more flexible and accessible for different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Kentucky
- Languages
- English