- Client-centered care
- Goal focused
- Maine based
About Margaret
Prof. Margaret Anzalone is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 31 years of practice. She offers a calm, accepting presence and a practical approach that helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and codependency. She welcomes conversations about grief, addictions, identity, and life transitions.
Her work blends talk therapy with practical tools drawn from several approaches. She centers the person's experience and meets them where they are. Sessions focus on understanding patterns, building coping skills, and setting manageable goals.
Margaret uses ideas from client-centered therapy to create a listening, nonjudgmental space. She adds cognitive behavioral strategies to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness practices are used to reduce reactivity and improve focus.
She also draws on solution-focused methods to help people find realistic next steps and short-term wins. This mix is tailored to each person and their situation rather than applied in a one-size-fits-all way. The emphasis is on practical change that fits daily life.
Her background includes long experience across many concerns, including trauma, parenting, caregiving stress, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and mood issues. Margaret works with people who want support with self-esteem, life purpose, midlife questions, and recovery from substance use.
To begin, visitors are invited to consider what they most want to change and how they prefer to work, so sessions can be matched to their needs and goals.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting connection. Online sessions use that same attitude of acceptance and aim to help the person feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that cause distress. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, panic, and habits that feed codependency.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made. This keeps therapy collaborative and goal oriented.
The biography does not specify which online formats are used, so please confirm current session options before booking. Many people find that online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into work, school, or family schedules. It can reduce travel time, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and let someone keep continuity of care when life changes. Licensed professionals can adapt mindfulness exercises, CBT worksheets, and solution-focused planning to an online setting so the work stays practical and focused on daily life.
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Experience
31+ years
Credentials
Maine, Massachusetts
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does this therapist help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, addictions, codependency, and identity issues including LGBT and gender dysphoria.
What is the therapy style like in sessions?
Sessions emphasize listening and collaboration. The therapist uses client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness practice, and solution-focused steps to help clients make practical changes.
How much clinical experience does the therapist have?
She brings 31 years of professional experience working with people on a wide range of life and mental health concerns.
What credentials and region are associated with this therapist?
She holds MA LICSW and ME LCSW credentials and practices from Maine.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography did not list specific session formats. Confirm current session options before booking to know how sessions are offered.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and the therapist's arrangements; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start working with this therapist?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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