Margaret Dunn, LPC

Margaret Dunn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people break unhelpful patterns that interfere with daily life. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and difficulties with eating and self-esteem.

Margaret uses clear, practical conversations to figure out what is getting in the way. She listens for stuck emotions and repetitive habits and helps people name those patterns. Then she teaches steps that make change manageable, not overwhelming.

Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and client-centered care to match methods to each person’s needs. Sessions include talking through thoughts and feelings, practicing small behavior changes, and trying new ways to respond to old triggers.

She also addresses concerns such as body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication problems, and post-traumatic stress. Margaret helps people who struggle with isolation, purpose, guilt, shame, or life transitions find clearer direction and steadier coping.

People who work with her can expect direct support for habits like emotional eating and self-sabotage. She guides clients through step-by-step habit work and tools for rebuilding self-trust. The focus is on real changes that fit everyday life, not one-size-fits-all solutions.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Margaret commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside a client-centered stance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people test and change unhelpful thinking that drives behaviors like avoidance or emotional eating. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages clearer values and gentle acceptance of difficult feelings while taking small, value-driven steps forward.

She treats the choice of approach as collaborative. In early sessions she will listen to your goals and preferences, explain the options, and try out strategies together so the plan fits your life and what you want to accomplish.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you work with verbal and nonverbal cues during deeper sessions. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or when a brief check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, homework prompts, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.