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- Family relationships
- Trauma and grief
- Eating issues
About Margo
LCSW in North Carolina with 40 years of clinical experience, Margo Arrowsmith helps people facing family strain, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue. She also focuses on adoption and foster care issues, body image and eating concerns, codependency, communication problems, and workplace challenges. Margo combines long experience with practical, problem-focused support. She adapts methods to each person rather than following one fixed protocol.
She works directly with adult children and their parents to establish more constructive, respectful relationships and clearer boundaries. Margo wrote Keep Your Parents Home: Keep Your Job and Life: Save Your Fortune and Sanity, which mixes professional guidance and her own caregiving experiences. That work informs how she advises people managing caregiving alongside other responsibilities.
Margo has developed a system for addressing bulimia and overeating and has extensive experience helping people resolve the effects of childhood abuse, including later-in-life healing. She also supports adult adoptees and birth parents through reunions and related issues when those are wanted.
Her background includes work as an interfaith minister with training in spiritual direction and dream work. She uses those perspectives as tools when clients want them, helping link spiritual concerns to practical change. After decades of practice she notes better results with people who are not actively addicted, and she often partners with individuals in long-term recovery to build satisfying lives.
Margo practices from North Carolina and provides services in English. Prospective clients should confirm current session options before booking and follow the site’s steps to match and schedule a first session.
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Therapeutic approaches and doing work online
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and chooses methods to fit the person and the problem. One approach focuses on practical behavior change and skills practice to address eating and food-related issues, which helps with bulimia and overeating by building new habits and coping strategies. Another common thread is trauma-focused work that helps people process past abuse and reduce its impact on day-to-day life; this work often involves paced, structured conversations and coping skill development that can be adapted to each client.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively with the client to decide which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Clients can expect this to be an ongoing conversation rather than a one-time decision, with adjustments as progress is made.
Confirm the exact session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing appointments during breaks or between other commitments. It can also mean shorter check-ins when needed, and options that do not require being on camera for the entire time. Ask about available session formats when you schedule so the practical setup matches your routine and needs.
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Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
40+ years
Listed in
North Carolina
Languages
English
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Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She supports people with family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue. She also works on adoption and foster care questions, body image, eating issues, codependency, and workplace problems.
What is her therapy style?
She adapts methods to the client and situation, using practical, problem-focused work rather than a single fixed approach. Spiritual direction or dream work may be used when the client wishes.
How much experience does she have?
She has 40 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns and populations over that time.
What are her credentials and location?
She is an LCSW licensed in North Carolina and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session through the site.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the urgent help numbers.