About Marguerite
Marguerite Wilcox is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 33 years of experience. She blends a practical, client-centered style with cognitive-behavioral tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She speaks plainly and focuses on real steps people can use between sessions.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to link thoughts and actions, and uses mindfulness to build awareness in daily life. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and EMDR when appropriate to address intense emotions and past hurts.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple homework to practice new skills between meetings. Marguerite helps with a wide range of concerns, including relationship struggles, parenting stress, addiction, grief, and workplace strain. She also works with people facing bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Her approach is to meet each person where they are and move at a pace the person can manage. She has experience in community and hospital settings, and applies lessons from both to make therapy useful and practical. Marguerite values collaboration and asks clients for feedback so therapy stays relevant to their goals.
She likes to set small, achievable steps that add up to change. Sessions are offered in English and are provided through online formats including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Marguerite encourages people to choose an approach that fits their life and to take gradual steps toward their goals.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person’s own goals and choices. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps people name what matters most so sessions follow the client’s pace and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses clear exercises and short homework tasks to change unhelpful patterns, which can be practiced between sessions to build lasting skills.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It teaches distress-tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness techniques that are useful for anger, relationship conflict, and high stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and help pick methods that match a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. This is a collaborative process that can change as progress is made.
Online therapy makes those methods accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice with visual cues. Phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, reminders, or ongoing skill coaching between sessions. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English