About Margaret
Margaret Johnson is a licensed professional counselor with twenty years of experience helping people handle addiction, trauma, anxiety, and relationship struggles. She meets clients where they are and listens to what matters most to them. Her work focuses on building self-knowledge and practical strategies to manage day-to-day life.
Margaret uses a mix of approaches aimed at clarity and change. She draws on existential therapy to help people find meaning and make values-based choices.
Background and approach
She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, for people processing traumatic memories. Sessions include mindfulness practices and techniques that support emotional awareness. She brings motivational interviewing and recovery-focused tools when addressing addictions and substance concerns.
The goal is not just insight but useful steps that fit a person’s life. Her work is strengths-based and direct. She helps people notice options, practice new ways of responding, and move toward goals they name.
She aims to create an authentic, respectful space for that work. Margaret trained in psychology at Central Washington University and completed a Master of Arts in Existential Phenomenological Therapeutic Psychology at Seattle University. She holds an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - credential and practices from Pennsylvania.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Existential therapy focuses on the big questions people bring - meaning, choices, values, and how to live in line with what matters. Online sessions can use conversation and reflective exercises to help people clarify those priorities and set goals that feel authentic.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a method some people use to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional charge. In remote work this often involves guided attention and bilateral stimulation paired with careful processing of the troubling memory to reduce its hold over daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Margaret will discuss goals, preferences, and the issues you bring and then recommend whether existential work, EMDR, mindfulness, or a combination best fits your needs. This is a collaborative decision made with attention to pacing and comfort.
Confirm the exact session formats before booking, as options are not listed here. Many people find online sessions helpful for fitting therapy into busy days, simplifying travel, and keeping steady momentum between appointments. Some formats are good for shorter check-ins or for people who prefer audio-only conversations, while others allow for full visual interaction when that helps the process.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English