Margaret Swanson, LICSW

Margaret Swanson is a Vermont-based licensed therapist with 25 years of clinical experience helping people navigate difficult life changes and emotional challenges. As an LICSW - a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker - she blends practical clinical skills with a compassionate, whole-person perspective to support clients facing depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, and the stressors of work and family life.

Her practice emphasizes personalized care that meets each person where they are, with interventions tailored to foster self-awareness, stronger communication, and resilience. She works with a broad range of concerns, including trauma recovery, identity questions, midlife transitions, parenting and family dynamics, addictions, grief, and chronic stress. This breadth allows her to address both immediate problems and longer-term patterns that affect daily functioning and well-being.

Margaret draws on evidence-informed methods while maintaining a collaborative, client-centered stance that values each person’s goals and preferences. She aims to create an approachable therapeutic experience in which clients can explore emotions, develop practical coping skills, and move toward meaningful change. Throughout the process she offers steady support and guidance as clients work to overcome obstacles and build more fulfilling lives.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on actions that align with their values; it is often useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy explores early relationship patterns and how they influence current connections, supporting healing in family, romantic, and caregiving relationships by strengthening emotional bonds and communication. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, provides practical tools to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can be helpful for depression, anxiety, and coping with day-to-day challenges.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Margaret collaborates with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and then adapts methods to find the best fit. That collaborative stance allows therapists and clients to adjust strategies over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online sessions offer flexibility and easier access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and receive support from licensed professionals in a format that suits individual needs.