About Margaret
Margaret Kei offers calm, practical support for adults facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and trauma. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW practicing in Virginia and brings eleven years of experience to sessions. Parents and young adults often come for help with mood shifts, relationship strain, or managing big life changes.
Margaret aims to create a straightforward, warm space where people can talk and start to feel a bit more steady.
Background and approach
She uses clear, goal-focused methods that match what each person needs. Sessions often include exploring current problems, identifying patterns that cause distress, and finding small steps to try between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps change thinking and behavior tied to anxiety and panic.
Trauma-focused work addresses past hurt that still affects daily life. Client-centered and solution-focused ideas make room for each person’s voice and short-term goals. Margaret has worked in a range of settings over eleven years with people coping with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment and family problems, anger, self-harm, impulsivity, and issues tied to shame or guilt.
She also supports those dealing with ADHD, social anxiety, and young adult transitions. Her practice emphasizes practical skills alongside careful listening. Sessions are offered in English and are provided through several online formats.
Margaret encourages people to start with what feels manageable and build from there. She aims to help people find clearer footing and more reliable ways to handle everyday challenges.
How Margaret’s Approaches Translate Online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. Online sessions let the therapist follow your lead and adjust pacing, tone, and goals while you talk about present concerns and feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions this can mean practicing new ways of thinking, trying short experiments between meetings, and reviewing what worked via chat or phone.
Trauma-focused therapy helps people process past events that still cause distress now. Online formats support this work through careful, paced discussion and targeted skills to reduce symptoms and build coping tools over time.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit current needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift as progress is made, and sessions may combine different approaches when helpful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls for deeper conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quick check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between appointments. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and make it easier to maintain momentum toward change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English