- Adults and couples
- Practical tools
- Mind and meaning
About Margaret
Margaret Sue Echols is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 34 years in mental health care. She offers psychotherapy, counseling, and life coaching to adults and to couples. Her practice addresses common concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship struggles, and stress.
She uses straightforward talk therapy alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness exercises. Sessions often include practical tools for managing symptoms, relaxation strategies, and attention to how thoughts and behavior interact. She aims to help people find small, usable changes that reduce distress and increase daily functioning.
Margaret values an integrative approach that considers mind, body, and spirit. She notes an awareness of multicultural concerns and respects different faiths and beliefs. Her work also covers issues like addictions, intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes including coping with natural or human-caused disaster.
In couples work she focuses on communication and emotional connection using emotion-focused ideas alongside practical behavior change. For individuals she often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Jungian-influenced exploration to help people clarify values and meaning.
Her style is direct but empathetic. She aims to be easy to talk with and to offer clear steps people can try between sessions. To begin, prospective clients follow the site process to match and schedule a session based on therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings; it can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the therapist listens and reflects to help a person find their own solutions; it supports self-understanding and confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches targeted skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for worry, sleep problems, anger, and habit change.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to pick methods that fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences, and may combine elements from different approaches as work progresses. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan can change when something is not helpful.
The biography lists messaging, phone/live chat, and video as session options; please confirm current session formats before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when useful, and remove commuting time. Many people find it simpler to try a technique in everyday settings and then discuss how it went in the next session, which can speed practical progress without promising a specific outcome.
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Experience
34+ years
Credentials
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What issues does this therapist address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, sleeping problems, career stress, and coping with life changes including coping with natural or human-caused disaster.
What is the therapist's general approach in sessions?
Her style blends talk therapy with practical techniques such as cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness exercises, relaxation skills, and integrative exploration that considers mind, body, and spirit.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 34 years working in mental health and has maintained a private practice for many of those years.
What credentials and where is she based?
She holds the LPC credential, licensed in Texas, and practices from Texas.
Which languages can sessions be held in?
Sessions are offered in English and she is open to working with international clients.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography lists messaging, phone/live chat, and video as offered formats; confirm current session options before booking.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to therapist availability.