About Margaret
Margaret Elkins meets people where they are and helps them take small, practical steps toward feeling better. She focuses on everyday struggles like anxiety, stress, depression, grief, addiction, and problems with relationships and body image. Clients who want straightforward talk and clear tools often find her approach helpful.
Margaret holds an LPCC, which is the Kentucky licensed professional clinical counselor credential she uses in practice. She completed a Master’s in Mental Health Counseling at Eastern Kentucky University and has worked in mental health for 15 years, including seven years as a licensed therapist.
Background and approach
That background shapes a calm, steady style in sessions. Her work blends hands-on strategies with attention to past hurts. She teaches skills to manage strong emotions and reduce overwhelm.
She also uses trauma-focused methods when people bring abuse or loss into the conversation. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. People leave with specific homework and skills to try between meetings.
Margaret emphasizes building routines that support mood, sleep, and relationships. She also helps with career strain, caregiver stress, and difficult life transitions like divorce and midlife shifts. Issues such as abandonment, attachment worries, guilt, and shame are discussed plainly and without jargon.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Margaret uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try simple behavior changes. CBT focuses on concrete exercises such as tracking thoughts and testing small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood.She also draws on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma-related symptoms. EMDR involves guided attention and structured processing of painful memories to lessen their emotional charge and improve day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and what feels most comfortable, then together they decide which methods to try and when to adjust the plan.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, school, and caregiving duties while keeping continuity of care.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English