About Margaret
Margaret Dunn is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of clinical experience who helps people untangle stuck patterns that limit their day-to-day life. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictive patterns, body image concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related questions. Her style is direct and compassionate.
She aims to help clients notice what gets in the way and take small, steady steps forward. Margaret focuses on practical work that targets thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
Background and approach
She uses methods that encourage acceptance of hard feelings while also building skills to change unhelpful habits. In sessions she listens for the root causes of things like emotional eating, low self-esteem, or repeated self-sabotage, then helps people practice different responses.
Her background includes work with chronic illness, caregiver stress, chronic pain, and people coping with major life changes such as divorce or career shifts. She also supports those dealing with shame, guilt, loneliness, and the search for life purpose. Margaret pays attention to communication problems and codependency patterns that keep people stuck.
Sessions blend emotional processing with concrete skill-building. Clients can expect guidance on changing habits, reducing anxious reactivity, and repairing important relationships. She places an emphasis on helping people move from avoidance toward purposeful action.
Margaret practices in Missouri and conducts sessions in English. She draws on a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs and goals, aiming to make therapy understandable, practical, and relevant to everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and choosing actions that align with personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and patterns like emotional eating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and coping habits. It is often useful for stress, insomnia, and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens deeply and mirrors back what is heard to help people clarify their own goals and strengths.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Margaret will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose or combine methods and then try them in sessions, adjusting as needed based on what feels most helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video is good for more in-depth work and visual cues, phone sessions can be a lighter option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can work well for brief check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options offer flexibility for weaving therapy into everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English