About Margaret
Margaret Mortensen is a Florida psychologist with 33 years of experience who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, relationship concerns, and eating-related issues. She speaks English and sees clients in Florida, and also accepts international clients. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, with a mix of practical tools and straightforward conversation.
She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to build a trusting working relationship. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas guide many sessions when thoughts and behaviors need to change.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used for emotion regulation and coping when things feel overwhelming. Her background includes long clinical experience working across mood disorders, trauma, grief, and challenges tied to identity and relationships. She has helped people navigate parenting strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and life transitions.
Margaret also supports people dealing with career pressures, intimacy concerns, and family-of-origin issues. Sessions typically focus on clear goals and practical steps. Conversations might include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, trying new coping strategies between sessions, and practicing communication skills.
Humor and empathy are part of her approach when appropriate. Margaret holds the credential FL Psychologist PY4165, which indicates licensure in Florida. She offers therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's own goals and experiences, emphasizing empathy and acceptance so people feel heard. This approach helps when someone needs space to process identity, grief, or relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete steps and exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and many stress-related problems.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and then recommend a path to try. That recommendation is collaborative - adjustments are made based on what is most helpful for the person over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or travel are issues. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it easier to keep therapy going while balancing work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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