Margaret Dunn, LPC

Margaret Dunn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who also brings training as a Functional Medicine Health Coach and a Certified Life Coach. She combines these backgrounds with evidence-based approaches to help remove the mental roadblocks that keep people from achieving the success they know they are capable of.

Margaret works with individuals who find themselves saying yes when they mean no, wondering where their passion went, feeling chronically exhausted, or struggling to make changes despite clear motivation. She highlights the role of the subconscious mind in sustaining unprocessed emotions and patterns, noting that those stored emotions can contribute to stress and physical symptoms over time.

Using therapeutic techniques that address emotions held beneath awareness, Margaret helps transform fear into courage, dis-ease into greater wellness, and confusion into clarity by guiding clients through the safe processing of stuck emotions. Her practice includes support for emotional eating, chronic illness, stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, life transitions, and related concerns.

She frequently works with smart, busy professional women to break cycles of emotional eating, overeating, and stress by identifying root causes rather than relying on willpower alone. Margaret also assists clients in reducing self-doubt, self-sabotage, and negative self-talk, and teaches a four-step process for changing habits so behaviors work for the client instead of against them.

Her core values include compassion, open-mindedness, a strong belief in growth and possibility, and deep respect for human experience. She looks forward to speaking with prospective clients about their goals and next steps.

Approaches and Online Support for Personal Growth

Margaret draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to guide her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and clarify values to take meaningful action - it can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, making it practical for addressing anxiety, depression, and habit change. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, nonjudgmental listening, and supporting the client's own capacity for growth, which helps when people face self-doubt, low self-esteem, or life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Margaret works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adapts strategies as work progresses so therapy remains aligned with the client's priorities.

Offering sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging provides flexibility for busy schedules, makes it easier to continue care during life changes, and allows access to licensed professionals from a range of locations. These options let clients choose the format that feels most comfortable and practical for their day-to-day life.