About Maggie
Maggie Lemley is a licensed professional counselor who brings 15 years of clinical experience to her practice. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what’s hard and look for practical ways forward. Maggie focuses on helping people notice patterns, name feelings, and try tools that reduce distress over time.
Her work began more than a decade ago in community mental health. That background includes roles as a psychiatric case manager, assessment clinician, and therapist on intensive outpatient teams.
Background and approach
Maggie has also worked with clients who experience severe and persistent mental illness and provided services in correctional and community settings. She has provided care for military service members and their families within the past five years and has attended many trainings and workshops on trauma, couple communication, alternative lifestyles, and military culture.
Her listed specialties include stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and workplace or caregiver burnout among others. Maggie is licensed in Tennessee as an LPC and in Kentucky as an LPCC. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and keeps up with continuing education to refine her clinical practice.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with time spent on skills people can use between meetings. People who look for clear steps, steady guidance, and a practical approach often find her helpful. She welcomes international clients and works in English.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Many of her methods draw on evidence-based approaches that teach clear skills. For example, trauma-focused cognitive behavior work helps people identify and change harmful thoughts and safety behaviors after difficult events, reducing distress and improving daily functioning. Dialectical behavior style teaches practical skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication to help during intense moments.Maggie treats choosing an approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which strategies to try and adjust the plan over time based on what actually helps.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity when travel or relocation occurs.
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What this therapist 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
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