About Margaret
Margaret Paul is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She brings 15 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain. Her work aims to make small, useful changes that add up over time.
She uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions often focus on what is happening now and on concrete steps someone can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Margaret draws on client-centered methods to listen closely and on cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking patterns. Margaret also integrates skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help manage strong emotions. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques are used when someone needs help building focus, motivation, or calm.
These tools are chosen to fit the person, not the other way around. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns such as anxiety, stress, depression, grief, addictions, sleep struggles, and low self-esteem. She also addresses issues around life purpose, isolation, career stress, and veteran and armed forces concerns.
Margaret works with people who want clearer goals and steadier coping skills. Her approach is warm and respectful. Talk is tailored to each person’s needs and paced so they can try new ways of coping without feeling rushed.
Taking a first step is often the hardest part, and she aims to make that step feel manageable.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and on understanding each person's priorities. Online sessions use that listening to set goals and track what matters in daily life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and teaches simple exercises to try between sessions to reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills for handling strong emotions and improving emotional regulation, which helps with anger, impulsivity, and stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, past experiences with therapy, and daily routines to recommend which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted as people test strategies and notice what helps most, so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers several flexible options including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions can be easier when connectivity is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on useful skills and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English