About Margaret
Margaret (Meg) Harari is a licensed clinical social worker with four decades of professional experience. She has practiced in California and previously worked in Boston, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Meg has spent much of her career in hospitals, outpatient programs, and behavioral health settings where she developed a practical, person-focused approach to care.
Meg helps people who are coping with addiction, relationship struggles, loss and grief, and depression. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, codependency, and isolation.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on the problems people bring day to day and on making manageable changes. Sessions are collaborative and direct. She aims to create an open space where clients can talk through painful feelings without worry about judgment.
Meg encourages small, doable steps toward clearer thinking and steadier coping skills. Her background includes leading many kinds of support groups and working across medical and behavioral health teams. That experience informs how she balances practical problem-solving with emotional support.
She helps clients identify patterns that get in the way and try different ways of responding. Meg believes taking the first step takes courage, and she focuses on empowering clients as they move toward more satisfying lives. She speaks English and practices in California as an LCSW (licensed clinical social worker).
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy options
Many clients benefit from clear, structured approaches that look at thoughts, feelings, and behavior. One common evidence-based approach focuses on understanding patterns in thinking and behavior and then practicing new ways to respond; this helps with depression, impulsivity, and coping with life changes. Another approach emphasizes building healthier attachment and relationship skills by identifying how past losses or abandonment shape current reactions; this is useful for relationship problems, codependency, and communication issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as progress is made.
Online therapy with Meg is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and longer clinical work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter, scheduled check-in. Live chat and text messages are useful for brief updates, quick coping strategies, or when written reflection feels most helpful. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress and practical coping skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English