About Margaret
Margaret Yurkunas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who helps people facing trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges, and issues with self-esteem. She also supports people coping with grief, eating concerns, ADHD, stress, and career or parenting strain. Sessions focus on listening and practical steps toward clearer thinking and steadier day-to-day functioning.
Her approach centers on Client-Centered Therapy, which means she aims to be genuine and empathic in conversations.
Background and approach
She works to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk openly about difficult experiences. Margaret also uses hypnotherapy when appropriate to address deeper patterns and memories that affect current behavior. With five years of experience as an LPC, she brings steady clinical perspective to difficult topics like abuse recovery, abandonment, attachment struggles, and infidelity.
She emphasizes self-discovery and supports clients as they identify personal goals and next steps. Her work includes helping people manage compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and isolation. Sessions are framed around practical outcomes: increased self-awareness, clearer direction, improved self-reliance, and higher self-esteem.
Conversations often include exploring communication problems, codependency, and family problem dynamics so clients leave with tangible ideas to try between sessions. Margaret conducts therapy in English and practices from Michigan. She meets people through online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, and helps each person find a pace and rhythm that fits their life.
How client-centered work and hypnotherapy translate online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people access their own strengths. In online sessions that often means the therapist reflects what she hears, asks clarifying questions, and helps clients name goals they can try between meetings. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and self-esteem struggles.Hypnotherapy involves guided relaxation and focused attention to help access memories, beliefs, or habits that influence current behavior. Delivered remotely, it can be used to work on trauma-related reactions, coping patterns, and habits people want to change when the therapist and client agree it might help.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Margaret will collaborate with each person to decide whether a more conversational client-centered focus, hypnotherapy, or a mix of both makes sense based on needs and goals. That decision is revisited as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different days and schedules. Video is useful when nonverbal cues matter, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or text are convenient for short check-ins or when writing helps process feelings. Those options make it easier to maintain regular contact while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English