Margaret Elkins, LPCC

Margaret Elkins is a licensed professional clinical counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and mood problems. She talks with clients about immediate concerns and practical steps they can take. Her approach is down-to-earth and focused on what a person needs now. Margaret draws on seven years as a licensed therapist and a longer total of 15 years working in mental health. She holds a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling from Eastern Kentucky University. She lists experience with trauma, severe mental illness, body image, and loss. In sessions she uses methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, build coping skills, and address difficult memories. She also uses conversational techniques that support motivation to make lasting changes. Clients can expect clear tools and short-term strategies alongside longer work when needed. Margaret pays attention to patterns that affect relationships and daily functioning, such as attachment and communication problems, control issues, and isolation. She also works with concerns tied to caregiving stress, career strain, and life transitions like divorce or midlife shifts. Her style is practical and collaborative. She helps people set manageable goals, test new behaviors, and track small wins. For parents and caregivers looking for support, her background includes a focus on caregiver issues and stress.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often involves setting small goals, trying new actions between sessions, and tracking progress to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.

EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is used to work through distressing memories and the emotions tied to them. In practice it pairs focused memory work with structured attention tasks to lessen the hold of traumatic memories over daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust them over time in a collaborative way.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, letting people meet from home or during a break and remove travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins when a full session isn't needed, and options for audio-only that need less bandwidth. Because session formats are not listed here, confirm the current options before booking so they match your schedule and needs.