Margaret Elkins

Margaret Elkins is a licensed professional clinical counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and eating and body image concerns. She uses clear, practical steps so people can feel steadier and more able to handle day-to-day demands. Her tone is straightforward and focused on small, usable changes that add up over time.

She has worked in the mental health field for 15 years and has been a licensed therapist for 7 years. Margaret earned a Master’s in Mental Health Counseling from Eastern Kentucky University. She has experience supporting people through trauma, grief and loss, and severe mental illness, as well as challenges around impulse control and relationships.

In sessions she relies on approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and DBT skills to manage strong emotions. She also uses EMDR and motivational interviewing when those methods fit a person’s needs. Margaret aims to match the method to the problem and to the person, not the other way around.

People work with her to address practical problems like communication breakdowns, caregiver stress, midlife transitions, and work pressure. She also helps with deeper issues like attachment wounds, shame, and loneliness. Her approach mixes skill teaching, direct conversation, and focused processing work.

Margaret practices in Kentucky and conducts sessions in English. She encourages prospective clients to think about the changes they want and to start therapy with clear, manageable goals.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

CBT helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and replaces them with more helpful patterns; online sessions can be used to teach and practice these skills in real time. DBT focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that people can learn through guided practice and homework between appointments. EMDR is a processing method used for trauma that involves focused attention and structured sets of work to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Margaret will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She tends to blend skills training with targeted processing when that mix fits the concern.

The therapist context does not specify particular online session formats, so confirm the current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, require less travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports learning and practicing new skills between meetings, which can speed up progress toward daily goals.