Margo Arrowsmith, LCSW

Margo Arrowsmith brings four decades of clinical work and training to families and individuals facing complex life challenges. Her practice emphasizes practical, respectful solutions for adult children and their parents who want to rebuild communication, set healthy boundaries, and find more constructive ways to live together. She is the author of "Keep Your Parents Home: Keep Your Job and Life: Save Your Fortune and Sanity," a blend of professional guidance and personal experience drawn from caring for her own parents; the book is available at keepyourparentshome.com.

In her writing and practice she applies lessons learned from both professional training and personal trial, and she is currently collaborating with a professional writer to expand the book to address couples after meeting a caregiver whose experience underscored the need for earlier guidance. As an interfaith minister trained in spiritual direction and dream work, she supports clients who want to explore the spiritual dimensions of their lives as part of therapy.

Arrowsmith has developed a structured approach to working with bulimia and overeating and offers specialized help for adult adoptees and birth parents navigating reunions and identity issues. She also has extensive experience addressing childhood abuse, grief, compassion fatigue, depression, and relationship and communication problems - with work that demonstrates change can occur at any age, as in a current case of an 85-year-old resolving long-standing childhood trauma.

Her credential is LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker - a credential that indicates advanced training in clinical social work. After many years of practice she reports the main population she has not successfully treated are active alcoholics and addicts, though she has helped people who have maintained long-term sobriety rebuild their lives.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Flexible Online Care

Margo Arrowsmith uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and problem solving to address issues like trauma, grief, depression, and relationship conflict. These approaches emphasize clear goals, coping strategies, and step-by-step change so clients can see progress in daily life.

She also integrates spiritual direction and dream work for clients who want to explore meaning, values, and inner guidance as part of their healing. In addition, she has developed a specific system for working with bulimia and overeating that combines structured strategies with supportive clinical guidance to address eating-related behaviors and underlying feelings.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Margo works with each person to identify their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try and when to adjust the plan. This collaborative stance helps align therapy with what matters most to the client.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for this work - video sessions, phone appointments, live chat, and text-based messaging let people fit care into busy schedules, maintain continuity during transitions, and access licensed professionals from home or while traveling. These options make ongoing therapeutic work more flexible and accessible for a wide range of life situations.