About Midge
Midge Spong is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She writes plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person. She also supports people working on self-esteem, career decisions, parenting concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Midge blends practical coaching with talk therapy to set clear, doable goals. She often helps people name strengths they already have and use those strengths to move forward.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small steps, honest conversation, and real-world strategies that fit a person’s daily life. Her background includes a Master’s in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She brings ten years of professional practice to her work as an LCSW, and she combines that with life and career coaching experience.
Midge uses a mix of client-centered conversation, cognitive strategies that challenge unhelpful thinking, and motivational techniques to help people find momentum. She can also use solution-focused methods to create short-term plans for immediate problems. People come to her for help with career planning, coping with loss, aging and geriatric issues, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and women’s life transitions.
She aims to make sessions practical and respectful, so people leave with clearer next steps and more confidence.
How Midge’s Approaches Work Online
Midge often uses Client-Centered Therapy to begin work online. That approach focuses on listening closely and following the client’s lead so sessions feel relevant and respectful. It helps when someone needs space to talk through feelings and be heard.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In online sessions this becomes practical work: identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and trying small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right method is part of the process, and Midge treats it as a collaborative effort. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then choose or combine approaches that fit. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have a fuller conversation and see each other’s expressions. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging work for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to use tools that match day-to-day life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English