About Margaret
Margaret Sicari is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship problems. She brings practical support for parenting challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and issues around intimacy. Margaret works from New York and communicates in English, and she is available to international clients as well.
Margaret uses a straightforward, collaborative style. She asks about goals and then helps people pick clear steps to reach them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and strengthening the resources someone already has. She values a calm, respectful tone and works to make people feel heard from the first visit. Her background spans clinical and community settings.
Margaret has worked in independent practice, schools, social service agencies, supervision roles, and program leadership. That mix gives her experience with mood disorders, addiction recovery support, family of origin problems, and caregiver stress. Clinically she draws on client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work.
She uses these methods to break problems into manageable pieces, test new habits, and reduce overwhelming reactions. Treatment plans are adapted to each person’s situation and goals. Margaret holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, and has practiced for 34 years.
She helps people through midlife changes, bipolar and mood concerns, panic and anxiety, substance issues, and the lasting effects of past trauma. Her aim is to help people leave sessions with a clearer plan and skills they can use right away.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-centered work places the person’s priorities at the center of sessions. The therapist listens closely, asks about goals, and helps people notice what already works so they can build on it. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and then tests new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms such as anxiety or panic. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness practices to reduce reactivity and help with stress and mood regulation.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and preferences and choose methods together. That collaborative process makes it easier to try strategies that match someone's life and goals rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow conversations that feel close to in-person sessions while letting people join from different locations. Phone sessions or live chat can be lighter options when bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions and makes it easier to fit support into a busy day. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit around work, caregiving, or other demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English