About Margaret
Margaret Doman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, and relationship problems. She writes plainly and listens closely to figure out what feels most urgent for each person. Her approach is practical and focused on small, usable steps toward feeling steadier.
Margaret brings 20 years as an LCSW and decades more in helping professions to her work. She has run and supervised programs for adolescents, outpatient substance use treatment, and children’s mental health services.
Background and approach
That background means she is comfortable with complex situations that involve trauma, loss, or behavioral challenges. In sessions she draws from several approaches to fit the person in front of her. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot patterns of thinking, emotion-focused work to untangle difficult feelings, and acceptance-based skills to manage painful experiences.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Margaret also attends to practical life demands. She helps people manage caregiving stress, blended family tensions, and the fallout from major life changes.
She works with concerns such as chronic illness, codependency, abandonment, and adoption-related issues. People who choose her can expect a respectful, down-to-earth partnership. Margaret emphasizes strengths and makes concrete plans for change.
She explains options in clear language and adjusts work to the client’s pace and real-life needs.
Evidence-informed approaches delivered online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then move toward values-based actions. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors to improve mood and daily functioning; it often helps with stress, depression, anxiety, and problem-solving. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and shifting emotional responses, which can be helpful for processing grief, trauma, and relationship distress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Margaret will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. The aim is to find what helps most in daily life, not to force a single model on everyone.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Video is useful when visual connection matters, phone works with lower bandwidth, live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection. These options increase flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Florida
- Languages
- English