About Margaret
Margaret Swanson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, and ADHD. She describes her work as practical and straightforward. She listens, asks clear questions, and helps clients find manageable steps forward.
Margaret brings 25 years of clinical experience in Vermont to everyday problems. She focuses on improving communication, increasing self-awareness, and building coping skills. Sessions are aimed at real-life change, not jargon or complicated theory.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and calm. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge unhelpful thinking. She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people live by their values.
Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship strain and trust issues. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are offered when emotion regulation or intense reactions get in the way of daily life. Margaret combines approaches to fit each person's needs.
Clients can expect direct feedback and practical homework between sessions when that feels useful. She aims to teach simple strategies that work in busy lives. The tone of sessions is respectful, steady, and focused on progress.
Margaret offers short-term coaching and longer therapy depending on goals. She helps with career strain, parenting concerns, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes. Her work supports identity questions and healing after trauma.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without letting them drive behavior and to take actions that match personal values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like low mood or anxiety. It is practical and often involves short exercises between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Margaret will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together choose methods that fit. That means combining techniques when needed and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a full session where conversation and visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, and quick coaching moments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain continuity when life gets complicated.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, Vermont
- Languages
- English
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