About Margaret
Margaret Buchholz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and life transitions. She offers a calm, respectful approach and aims to meet each person where they are. Parents and individuals juggling many demands often find her straightforward style easy to work with.
Margaret began working in the mental health field in 2014 after earning a bachelor's degree from Southwest Minnesota State University.
Background and approach
She completed a Master of Social Work at the University of South Dakota in 2016. Her early roles included residential treatment and hospital work, followed by several years at an outpatient clinic in southwest Minnesota. Her sessions tend to be relaxed and person-centered.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different responses. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy also appear in her work when people are ready to set short-term goals or find ways to make change feel manageable. Margaret emphasizes collaboration.
She listens first, then helps clients pick a focus that matches their priorities. That could be reducing anxiety, building self-esteem, coping with grief, or managing symptoms related to bipolar disorder or addictions. She brings eight years of clinical experience to each session and treats everyone with compassion and respect.
People who want practical strategies and steady support may find her approach helpful.
How her approaches translate to online care
Margaret uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and mood challenges by breaking problems into small, testable steps.She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change. That approach focuses on building motivation and resolving mixed feelings when someone wants to make a shift but feels stuck. Solution-Focused Therapy appears when a person wants short-term, actionable steps to move toward a specific goal quickly.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Margaret listens to your goals and preferences, then suggests techniques to try. Together you decide whether to focus on thought patterns, motivation, or concrete goal-setting and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions include video calls, phone meetings, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video lets you have a face-to-face conversation, phone works with lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging can be a quick check-in or a way to reflect between sessions. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins, and consistent follow-up while you work toward your goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, North Dakota, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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