About Margaret
Prof. Margaret Anzalone offers a client-centered approach that emphasizes listening, respect, and practical support. She brings 31 years of experience as a social worker and clinician to help people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to begin.
She is Marylan- and Maine-licensed as MA LICSW and ME LCSW and works in Maine while accepting international clients in English. Margaret uses straightforward talk, tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness practices to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small experiments that can change daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals such as managing anxiety, improving sleep, or addressing attention and focus concerns like ADHD. She also helps with grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, addiction concerns, and career transitions. Her style is collaborative and practical.
People leaving a session often have one or two steps to try between meetings. Therapy can include short coaching-style conversations, longer reflective work, or structured skill practice depending on the need. Margaret draws on decades of clinical experience to tailor approaches to each person’s situation and values.
She uses solution-focused ideas to set achievable targets and mindfulness to build calm and awareness. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to shift thoughts and behaviors that maintain distress. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session according to therapist availability.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy is about being heard and guiding the work at the client’s pace. It focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people identify what matters most to them and what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks concerns into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and attention-related habits.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether to emphasize CBT skill-building, mindfulness practice, or a more client-centered, solution-focused path and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, homework support, and more flexible communication between scheduled sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Maine, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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